Fusing pollen-stratigraphic and dendroclimatic proxy data to reconstruct summer temperature variability during the past 7.5 ka in subarctic Fennoscandia

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 275-286

  Helama, Samuli ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^b   Bjune, Anne E ^c   Birks, H John B ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Climatic change; Dendrochronology; Paleoclimatology; Paleolimnology; Pollen data; Proxy fusion

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREE RING;

FENNOSCANDIA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84861581938     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9598-1     Document Type: Article

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