Exploring the potential of tree-ring chronologies from the Trafoi Valley (Central Italian Alps) to reconstruct glacier mass balance

Boreas

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 169-178

  Leonelli, Giovanni ^a   Pelfini, Manuela ^a   Cherubini, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CORRELATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS CEMBRA; PINUS CEMBROIDES;

EID: 62649150820     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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