Droughts and rainfall in south-eastern Finland since AD 874, inferred from Scots pine ring-widths

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-183

  Helama, Samuli ^a   Lindholm, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

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