A multi-proxy approach for revealing recent climatic changes in the Russian Altai

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 175-188

  Sidorova, Olga V ^a,b   Saurer, Matthias ^a   Myglan, Vladimir S ^d   Eichler, Anja ^a,c   Schwikowski, Margit ^a,c   Kirdyanov, Aleksander V ^b   Bryukhanova, Marina V ^b   Gerasimova, Oksana V ^d   Kalugin, Ivan A ^e   Daryin, Andrey V ^e   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate; Dendrochronology; Ice core; Lake sediments; Russian Altai; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WARMING;

ALTAY [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

LARIX;

EID: 84855257258     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0989-6     Document Type: Article

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