Separating the climatic signal from tree-ring width and maximum latewood density records

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-44

  Kirdyanov, Alexander V ^a   Vaganov, Eugene A ^a   Hughes, Malcolm K ^b  

^a SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate signal; Dendroclimatology; Larch; Summer temperature; Tree ring width density relations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY;

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY (MXD); SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CORRELATION; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER;

LARIX;

EID: 33845795355     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-006-0094-y     Document Type: Article

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