Climate change between the mid and late Holocene in northern high latitudes-Part 1: Survey of temperature and precipitation proxy data

Climate of the Past

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 591-608

  Sundqvist, H S ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Moberg, A ^a   Holmgren, K ^a   Kornich H ^a   Nilsson, J ^a   Brattstrom G ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LATITUDE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 77956916424     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-591-2010     Document Type: Article

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