Extending the Place Glacier mass-balance record to AD 1585, using tree rings and wood density

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-313

  Wood, Lisa J ^a   Smith, Dan J ^a   Demuth, Michael N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Glacier mass balance; Place Glacier; Tree rings; Wood density

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DOUGLAS FIR; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; INCREMENT CORE; MASS BALANCE; MEAN DENSITY; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; PROXY DATA; RING-WIDTH; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TREE RINGS; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WOOD DENSITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; HARDWOODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MORAINE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOWPACK; TREE RING; WOOD;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; GROWTH RINGS; HARDWOODS; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PSEUDOTSUGA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREES; WEATHER; WOOD DENSITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; PLACE GLACIER;

ABIES; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 82455164131     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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