Comparing Scots pine tree-ring proxies and detrending methods among sites in Jämtland, west-central Scandinavia

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-249

  Linderholm, Hans W ^a   Gunnarson, Björn E ^b,d   Liu, Yu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central Scandinavian Mountains; Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Scots pine

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STANDARDIZATION; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; JAMTLAND; NORWEGIAN SEA; SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 77956876361     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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