Dendroclimatology: Extracting climate from trees

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-352

  Sheppard, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPAIR; SITE SELECTION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATA QUALITY CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 79957618653     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.42     Document Type: Article

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