Extracting a common high frequency signal from Northern Quebec black spruce tree-rings with a Bayesian hierarchical model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 607-613

  Boreux, J J ^a   Naveau, P ^b   Guin, O ^b   Perreault, L ^c   Bernier, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 77949734705     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-607-2009     Document Type: Article

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