Palaeoclimatological and palaeolimnological records from fossil midges and tree-rings: the role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in eastern Finland through the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2411-2423

  Luoto, Tomi P ^a   Helama, Samuli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION MODEL; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; EASTERN FINLAND; FOREST FIRES; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; LITTLE ICE AGE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SPRING FLOODS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TERM RELATIONSHIP; TREE RING DATA; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REPAIR; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLY; FOREST FIRE; FOSSIL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MEDIEVAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; STREAMFLOW; TREE RING;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; DEFORESTATION; FINLAND; HYDRAULICS; MAGNETS; MAINTENANCE; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

FINLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INSECTA; NEMATOCERA;

EID: 77955273493     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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