Spatial and temporal stability of the climatic signal in northern Fennoscandian pine tree-ring width and maximum density

Boreas

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-12

  Tuovinen, Mervi ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^b   Los, Sietse ^b   Grudd, Håkan ^c,d   Jalkanen, Risto ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ABISKO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STATION   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 62749089305     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00046.x     Document Type: Article

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