The climatic interpretation of pan-European signature years in oak ring-width series

Holocene

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 689-694

  Kelly, P Michael ^a   Leuschner, Hanns Hubert ^b   Briffa, Keith R ^a   Harris, Ian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Dendroclimatology; European climate; Late Holocene; Quercus spp.; Signature years; Soil moisture; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; TREE RING;

EUROPE;

QUERCUS;

EID: 18744392236     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683602hl582rp     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Allan, R.J., Lindesay, J. and Parker, D. 1996: El Niño Southern Oscillation and Climatic Variability. Canberra: CSIRO.
2. Baillie, M.G.L. 1983: Is there a single British Isles oak tree-ring signal? In Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on Archaeometry, University of Bradford.
3. _ 1995: A Slice through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating. London: Batsford.
4. Briffa, K.R. 1999: Analysis of dendrochronological variability and associated natural climates - The last 10000 years (ADVANCE-10K). Pages Newsletter 7, 6-8.
5. Briffa, K.R. and Wigley, T.M.L. 1985: Soil moisture reconstruction using tree rings. Climate Monitor 14, 106-13.
6. Briffa, K.R., Baillie, M.G.L., Bartholin, T., Bonde, N., KalelaBrundin, M., Eckstein, D., Eronen, M., Frenzel, B., Friedrich, M., Groves, C., Grudd, H., Hantemirov, R., Hillam, J., Jansma, E., Jones, P.D., Karlén, W., Leuschner, H.H., Lindholm, M., Makowka, I., Naurzbaev, M.M., Nogler, P., Osborn, T.J., Riemer, T., Salmon, M., Sander, C., Schweingruber, F.H., Shiyatov, S.G., Spain, J., Spurk, M., Timonen, M., Tyers, I., Vaganov, E.A., Wazny, T. and Zetterberg, P. 2000: Analysis of dendrochronological variability and associated natural climates in Eurasia - The last 10000 years (ADVANCE-10K). In Proceedings of the European Climate Science Conference, Vienna, October 1998. (CD ROM available from Biodiversity and Global Change Unit, Research DG, European Commission, Brussels.)
7. Briffa, K.R., Jones, P.D. and Hulme, M. 1994: Summer moisture variability across Europe, 1892-1991: An analysis based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index. International Journal of Climatology 14, 475-506.
8. Fritts, H.C. 1976: Tree Rings and Climate. Academic Press, London.
9. Gray, B.M. and Pilcher, J.R. 1983: Testing the significance of summary response functions. Tree-Ring Bulletin 43, 31-38.
10. Hughes, M.K., Kuniholm, P.I., Eischeid, J.K., Garfin, G., Griggs, C.B. and Latini, C. 2001: Aegean tree-ring signature years explained. Tree-Ring Research 57, 67-73.
11. Hulme, M., Osborn, T.J. and Johns, T.C. 1998: Precipitation sensitivity to global warming: Comparison of observations with HadCM2 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters 25, 3379-82.
12. Jones, P.D., New, M., Parker, D.E., Martin, S. and Rigor, I.G. 1999: Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years. Reviews of Geophysics 37, 173-99.
13. Kelly, P.M. and Wright, P.B. 1978: The European drought of 1975-6 and its climatic context. Progress in Physical Geography 2, 237-63.
14. Kelly, P.M., Jones, P.D. and Jia, P.Q. 1999: Spatial patterns of variability in the global surface air temperature data set. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 24237-56.
15. Kelly, P.M., Munro, M.A.R., Hughes, M.K. and Goodess, C.M. 1989: Climate and signature years in West European oaks. Nature 340, 57-60.
16. Lamb, H.H. 1976: Climate in historical times. In Lamb, H.H., Climate, Present, Past and Future, Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future. London: Methuen, 423-73.
17. Pilcher, J.R. and Gray, B.M. 1982: The relationship between oak tree growth and climate in Britain. Journal of Ecology 70, 297-304.
18. Thompson, D.W.J. and Wallace, J.M. 1998: The Arctic Oscillation signature in the wintertime geopotential height and temperature fields. Geophysical Research Letters 25, 1297-300.
19. _ 2000: Annular modes in the extratropical circulation. Part I: Month-to-month variability. Journal of Climate 13, 1000-16.
20. Thompson, D.W.J., Wallace, J.M. and Hegerl, G. 2000: Annular modes in the extratropical circulation. Part II: Trends. Journal of Climate 13, 1018-36.