Reconstructing millennial-scale, regional paleoclimates of boreal Canada during the holocene

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 316-330

  Viau, A E ^a   Gajewski, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; LITTLE ICE AGES; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIODS; MODERN ANALOG TECHNIQUES; NORTHERN CANADA; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOCLIMATES; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SPACE-TIME EVOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING;

RESTORATION;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 64049095497     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2342.1     Document Type: Article

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