Warmer early instrumental measurements versus colder reconstructed temperatures: shooting at a moving target

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 3298-3310

  Frank, David ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^a   Böhm, Reinhard ^b   Maugeri, Maurizio ^c   Esper, Jan ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^c Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETERS;

INSTRUMENTAL DATA; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; NATURAL FORCED CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RECONSTRUCTION; TIME SERIES; TREE RING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 37049028817     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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