A pan-European summer teleconnection mode recorded by a new temperature reconstruction from the northeastern Mediterranean (ad 1768-2008)

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 887-898

  Trouet, V ^a   Panayotov, M P ^b,c   Ivanova, A ^b   Frank, D ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Bulgaria)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balkan; Bulgaria; climate reconstruction; climate response; dendroclimatology; east Atlantic pattern; eastern Mediterranean; maximum latewood density; North Atlantic Oscillation; Pinus heldreichii; teleconnection; tree ring

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE; TREE RING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHEAST);

PINUS HELDREICHII;

EID: 84860137187     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611434225     Document Type: Article

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