Annual growth of Cassiope tetragona as a proxy for Arctic climate: Developing correlative and experimental transfer functions to reconstruct past summer temperature on a millennial time scale

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1703-1715

  Rozema, Jelte ^a   Weijers, Stef ^a   Broekman, Rob ^a   Blokker, Peter ^a   Buizer, Bert ^a   Werleman, Chantal ^a   El Yaqine, Hassan ^a   Hoogedoorn, Hanneke ^a   Fuertes, Miguel Mayoral ^a   Cooper, Elisabet ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Annual growth; Arctic tundra; Artic climate proxy; C. tetragona; Growth temperature transfer functions; OTC; Temperature reconstruction; Wintermarkseptum

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RESPONSE; ICE CORE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SHRUB; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; LONGYEARBYEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CASSIOPE; CASSIOPE TETRAGONA;

EID: 66749146592     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01858.x     Document Type: Article

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