Long-term summer temperature reconstruction inferred from tree-ring records from the Eastern Carpathians

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1107-1117

  Popa, Ionel ^a   Kern, Zoltán ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Eastern Europe; Paleoclimate proxy; Pinus cembra L.; Timberline

Indexed keywords

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREE RING;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PINUS CEMBRA; PINUS CEMBROIDES;

EID: 67349164085     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0439-x     Document Type: Article

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