Summer temperatures in the Canadian Rockies during the last millennium: A revised record

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 131-144

  Luckman, B H ^a   Wilson, R J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SUMMER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 16344396474     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-004-0511-0     Document Type: Article

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