Frequency of cool summers in interior North America over the past three centuries

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Girardin, Martin P ^a,b   Tardif, Jacques C ^b   Epp, Brock ^b,c   Conciatori, France ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c ECOSTEM Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG-TERM CHANGES; MARS MODELS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; PINUS BANKSIANA; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE DATA; TREE RINGS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECADAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INNOVATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREE RING;

NORTH AMERICA;

PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 67449146614     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037242     Document Type: Article

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