The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland: Part 2, interannual to centennial variability in summer temperatures for 7500 years

Holocene

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 681-687

  Helama, Samuli ^a   Lindholm, Markus ^a   Timonen, Mauri ^b   Meriläinen, Jouko ^c   Eronen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Finnish Lapland; Holocene; Pinus sylvestris; Summer temperature; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TREE RING;

FINLAND;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0036855704     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683602hl581rp     Document Type: Article

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