New insights into Holocene atmospheric circulation dynamics in central Scandinavia inferred from oxygen-isotope records of lake-sediment cellulose

Boreas

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 770-782

  St Amour, Natalie A ^a   Hammarlund, Dan ^b   Edwards, Thomas W D ^a   Wolfe, Brent B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HOLOCENE; LAKE WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BALTIC SEA; SWEDEN;

EID: 78649554792     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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