A new reconstruction of temperature variability in the extra-tropical northern hemisphere during the last two millennia

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-351

  Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dark Age Cold Period; Global warming; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Roman Warm Period; Temperature reconstructions; Temperature variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 77956465549     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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