Solar and volcanic fingerprints in tree-ring chronologies over the past 2000years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 313-314, Issue , 2012, Pages 127-139

  Breitenmoser, Petra ^a   Beer, Jürg ^b   Brönnimann, Stefan ^a   Frank, David ^a,c   Steinhilber, Friedhelm ^a,b   Wanner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate variability; DeVries solar cycle; Past two millennia; Tree ring proxies; TSI; Volcanic activity

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LITTLE ICE AGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESOLUTION; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; VOLCANISM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855822310     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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