Cloud response to summer temperatures in Fennoscandia over the last thousand years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Gagen, Mary ^a   Zorita, Eduardo ^b   McCarroll, Danny ^a   Young, Giles H F ^a   Grudd, Håkan ^c   Jalkanen, Risto ^d   Loader, Neil J ^a   Robertson, Iain ^a   Kirchhefer, Andreas ^e  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ISOTOPES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; FENNOSCANDIA; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH LATITUDES; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MODEL ESTIMATES; RADIATION BALANCE; REGIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; TREE RINGS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLOUD COVER; CONIFEROUS TREE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; LITTLE ICE AGE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIATION BALANCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER; TREE RING;

FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 79952128868     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046216     Document Type: Article

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