A 400-year reconstruction of July relative air humidity for the Vienna region (eastern Austria) based on carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratios in tree-ring latewood cellulose of oaks (Quercus petraea Matt. Liebl.)

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 243-262

  Haupt, Marika ^a   Weigl, Martin ^b,c   Grabner, Michael ^b   Boettger, Tatjana ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c KOMPETENZZENTRUM HOLZ GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR HUMIDITY; AUSTRIA; BIVARIATE; EXCHANGEABLE HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; LATEWOOD; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MODEL VERIFICATION; OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPES; QUERCUS PETRAEA; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUMMER CLIMATE; TREE RINGS; WET AND DRY; WET CONDITIONS;

CELLULOSE; DROUGHT; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ISOTOPES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DECIDUOUS TREE; HUMIDITY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 79951812011     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9862-1     Document Type: Article

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