Updating historical tree-ring records for climate reconstruction

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 1957-1959

  Tegel, Willy ^a   Vanmoerkerke, Jan ^b   Büntgen, Ulf ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Regional Archaeological Service (DRAC/SRA)   (France)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURES; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE RINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; STANDARDIZATION; TREE RING;

ARCHEOLOGY; CALIBRATION; COMPOSITES; EUROPE; FERTILIZATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECISION; STANDARDS; WOOD;

EID: 77955267406     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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