Combining ring width, density and stable carbon isotope proxies to enhance the climate signal in tree-rings: An example from the southern French Alps

Climatic Change

Volumn 78, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 363-379

  Gagen, Mary ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^a   Edouard, Jean Louis ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; ISOTOPE PROXIES; LATEWOOD DENSITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; GROWTH RINGS; METEOROLOGY; PINUS UNCINATA; RADIOISOTOPES; STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL; SUMMER WOOD; TREES;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PINUS UNCINATA;

EID: 33749370055     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9097-3     Document Type: Article

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