Summer moisture variability in east central Sweden since the mid-eighteenth century recorded in treerings

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-287

  Linderholm, Hans W ^a,c   Niklasson, Mats ^b   Molin, Tina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 5044224845     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2004.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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