Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1005-1016

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Trouet, Valerie ^a   Frank, David ^a   Leuschner, Hanns Hubert ^c   Friedrichs, Dagmar ^d   Luterbacher, Jürg ^e   Esper, Jan ^f  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; BRITISH ISLES; CENTRAL EUROPE; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GERMANY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERANNUAL; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MOIST AIR; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUERCUS SP; RING WIDTH; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL FIELDS; SUMMER DROUGHTS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TIME-SCALES; TREE RINGS; WESTERN EUROPE;

PRODUCTIVITY;

DROUGHT;

ADVECTION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; GEOPOTENTIAL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

GERMANY;

QUERCUS;

EID: 77649338727     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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