Holocene and Last Interglacial cloudiness in eastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1221-1234

  Fréchette, Bianca ^a   De Vernal, Anne ^a   Richard, Pierre J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; AIR TEMPERATURES; ARCTIC CANADA; CLOUD COVERS; FEEDBACKS]; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; GROWING SEASONS; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; INTERGLACIAL SEDIMENTS; MODERN ANALOGUE TECHNIQUES; POLLEN ASSEMBLAGES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; STRUCTURAL TYPES; SUMMER TEMPERATURES; TUNDRA VEGETATIONS; VEGETATION CHANGES; VEGETATION COVERS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; HOLOCENE; ISLAND; LAST INTERGLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; FOG LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 59349091694     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E08-053     Document Type: Article

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