Late Holocene climatic variability reconstructed from incremental data from pines and pearl mussels - a multi-proxy comparison of air and subsurface temperatures

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 734-748

  Helama, Samuli ^a   Läänelaid, Alar ^c   Tietäväinen, Hanna ^d   Fauria, Marc Macias ^e   Kukkonen, Ilmo T ^f   Holopainen, Jari ^b   Nielsen, Jan K ^g   Valovirta, Ilmari ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^g STATOIL   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

FINLAND; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN; UPPSALA [SWEDEN];

EID: 78549256101     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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