Reconciling pollen-stratigraphical and tree-ring evidence for high- and low-frequency temperature variability in the past millennium

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 27-28, 2010, Pages 3905-3918

  Helama, Samuli ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^b   Birks, H John B ^c,d,e   Bjune, Anne E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; POLLEN DATA; TEMPERATURE AMPLITUDE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; TREE RINGS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; REPAIR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; WARMING;

EID: 78549276474     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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