Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 27-28, 2011, Pages 3947-3959

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Brázdil, Rudolf ^c,d   Heussner, Karl Uwe ^e   Hofmann, Jutta ^f   Kontic, Raymond ^g   Kyncl, Tomáš ^h   Pfister, Christian ^b   Chromá, Kateřina ^c   Tegel, Willy ⁱ  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Global Change Research Centre AS CR   (Czech Republic)

^e GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f Jahrringlabor Hofmann   (Germany)

^g Labor Dendron   (Switzerland)

^h Moravian Dendro Labor   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroarchaeology; Dendroclimatology; Documentary evidence; Drought spells; Forest growth; Historical climatology; Palaeoclimatic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ABIES ALBA MILL; AGRICULTURAL YIELDS; AMBIENT WEATHER; ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATIC DRIVERS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENDROARCHAEOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE; EARTH'S CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; FOREST GROWTH; GERMANY; HUMAN HEALTH; HYDROCLIMATIC; LITTLE ICE AGE; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; NATURAL VARIATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; RETURN PERIODS; RING WIDTH; SEVERE WEATHER; SWITZERLAND; TIME-SCALES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; WET CONDITIONS;

ASSOCIATED GAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; EARTH (PLANET); GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; CROP YIELD; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RESPONSE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECONSTRUCTION; RETURN PERIOD;

CZECH REPUBLIC; FRANCE; GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

EID: 82355180854     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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