Natural climatic variability and the Norse settlements in Greenland

Climatic Change

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 389-407

  Hunt, B G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC MODELS; CLIMATIC REGIMES; GREENLAND; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NATURAL CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PROXY DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATOLOGY;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 76149116495     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9575-5     Document Type: Article

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