A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 141-153

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a   Esper, Jan ^a   Frank, David C ^a   Nicolussi, Kurt ^b   Schmidhalter, Martin ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for High Mountain Research   (Austria)

^c Dendrolabor Valais ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SUMMER; TREE RING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

LARIX;

EID: 24944496175     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0028-1     Document Type: Article

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