Variability and extremes of northern Scandinavian summer temperatures over the past two millennia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 88-89, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Esper, Jan ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^b   Timonen, Mauri ^c   Frank, David C ^b,d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Common Era; Palaeoclimate; Scandinavia; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMMON ERA; PALAEOCLIMATE; SCANDINAVIA; TREE RINGS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; MEDIEVAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; ROMAN ERA; SUMMER; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATES; METEOROLOGY; RINGS; SCANDINAVIA;

SCANDINAVIA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84860541551     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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