A rapid method for the production of robust millennial length stable isotope tree ring series for climate reconstruction

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 82-83, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-103

  Gagen, M ^a   McCarroll, D ^a   Jalkanen, R ^b   Loader, N J ^a   Robertson, I ^a   Young, G H F ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Northern Fennoscandia; Pinus sylvestris; Pooled chronology; Stable carbon isotope dendroclimatology

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; FENNOSCANDIA; FINNISH; LOW FREQUENCY; MEAN VALUES; PALAEOCLIMATE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POOLED CHRONOLOGY; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; RAPID METHOD; SPECTROMETRY MEASUREMENTS; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TIME STEP; TREE RINGS; WOOD MATERIALS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

FORESTRY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING;

CARBON; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METEOROLOGY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SCANDINAVIA;

FINLAND;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84855465366     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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