Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-56

  Bjune, A E ^a   Seppa H ^b   Birks, H J B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Fennoscandia; Holocene climate change; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Pollen stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA; KOLA PENINSULA; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 58349119772     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9254-y     Document Type: Article

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