Early Weichselian interstadial (MIS 5c) summer temperatures were higher than today in northern Fennoscandia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 777-782

  Väliranta, Minna ^a,b   Birks, Hilary H ^c,d   Helmens, Karin ^b   Engels, Stefan ^b   Piirainen, Mikko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ASTRONOMICAL FORCING; BIRCH WOODLANDS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE SUMS; FENNOSCANDIA; FINNISH; GROWING PERIODS; HIGH-LATITUDES; MACROFOSSILS; SUB-ARCTIC; SUMMER TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

FORESTRY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEICHSELIAN;

EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 62949148644     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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