Summer temperature variations in southern Kamchatka as reconstructed from a 247-year tree-ring chronology of Betula ermanii

Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 234-240

  Sano, Masaki ^a,b   Furuta, Fumito ^a   Sweda, Tatsuo ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Dendrochronology; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

BETULA ERMANII; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATIC RESPONSE; COASTAL SITES; COOLING TRENDS; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; KAMCHATKA; MODULATING TEMPERATURE; NORTH PACIFIC; OPEN CANOPIES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGRESSION MODEL; RING WIDTH; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; STUDY AREAS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TREE LINE; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; VERIFICATION TESTS; YEAR RING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPAIR; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; CORRELATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREE RING; TREELINE;

KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATKA PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BETULA ERMANII;

EID: 77955087439     PISSN: 13416979     EISSN: 16107403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-010-0183-z     Document Type: Article

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