Temporal stability of climate-isotope relationships in tree rings of oak and pine (Ticino, Switzerland)

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Reynolds Henne, C E ^a   Siegwolf, R T W ^a   Treydte, K S ^b   Esper, J ^b   Henne, S ^c   Saurer, Matthias ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; ISOTOPES; PHYSIOLOGY; SOFTWOODS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; GROWTH; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; TICINO;

EID: 40749108541     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002945     Document Type: Article

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