Interannual to multidecadal modes of labrador climate variability inferred from tree rings

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 219-228

  D'Arrigo, R ^a   Buckley, B ^a   Kaplan, S ^b   Woollett, J ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREE RING;

CANADA; LABRADOR;

EID: 0037276927     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-002-0275-3     Document Type: Article

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