A 350 year drought reconstruction from Alpine tree ring stable isotopes

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kress, Anne ^a   Saurer, Matthias ^a   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a   Frank, David C ^b   Esper, Jan ^c   Bugmann, Harald ^d  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLING PROCESS; DROUGHT INDICES; INTERANNUAL; LONG-TERM CHANGES; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUMMER DROUGHTS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SUNSHINE DURATION; SWISS ALPS; TREE RING CELLULOSE; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING WIDTH;

DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; REPAIR;

ISOTOPES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREE RING;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA;

EID: 77954317436     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GB003613     Document Type: Article

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