Dendrochronology in the High Arctic: July air temperatures reconstructed from annual shoot length growth of the circumarctic dwarf shrub Cassiope tetragona

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 27-28, 2010, Pages 3831-3842

  Weijers, Stef ^a   Broekman, Rob ^a   Rozema, Jelte ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL RESOLUTION; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE; AVERAGE AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PROXIES; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; GROWTH PARAMETERS; HIGH ARCTIC; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PLANT SAMPLES; PREVIOUS YEAR; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SHOOT GROWTH; SHOOT LENGTH; SHRUB SPECIES; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SVALBARD; TRANSFER MODELS; TUNDRA SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RESPONSE; METEOROLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SHRUB; TUNDRA SOIL;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CASSIOPE; CASSIOPE TETRAGONA;

EID: 78549279465     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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