Improving a tree-ring reconstruction from west-central Scandinavia: 900 years of warm-season temperatures

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-108

  Gunnarson, Björn E ^a,c   Linderholm, Hans W ^b   Moberg, Anders ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central Scandinavian Mountains; Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Maximum latewood density; Scots pine

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECADAL VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREE RING; TREELINE;

JAMTLAND; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 78650990965     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0783-5     Document Type: Article

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