A 500-year record of summer near-ground solar radiation from tree-ring stable carbon isotopes

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-324

  Young, Giles H F ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^a   Loader, Neil J ^a   Kirchhefer, Andreas J ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud cover; Dendrochronology; Dendroclimatology; Fennoscandia; Late Holocene; Norway; Pinus sylvestris; Stable isotopes; Sunshine

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES;

FENNOSCANDIA; NORWAY;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 77951279814     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609351902     Document Type: Article

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