Twentieth-century summer temperature variability in the southern Altai Mountains: A carbon and oxygen isotope study of tree-rings

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1149-1156

  Loader, N J ^a   Helle, G ^b   Los, S O ^a   Lehmkuhl, F ^c   Schleser, G H ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b German Centre for GeoSciences GFZ   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon; dendroclimatology; oxygen; Russia; stable isotope; tree ring

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; GROWING SEASON; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME SERIES; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS;

PINUS SIBIRICA;

EID: 77958017295     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610369507     Document Type: Article

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