Multi-archive summer temperature reconstruction for the European Alps, AD 1053-1996

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-79

  Trachsel, Mathias ^a   Kamenik, Christian ^a   Grosjean, Martin ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^b   Moberg, Anders ^c   Brázdil, Rudolf ^d   Büntgen, Ulf ^a,e   Dobrovolný, Petr ^d   Esper, Jan ^f   Frank, David C ^a,e   Friedrich, Michael ^g   Glaser, Rüdiger ^h   Larocque Tobler, Isabelle ^a   Nicolussi, Kurt ⁱ   Riemann, Dirk ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate; Climate reconstruction; Last millennium; Multi proxy; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ALPS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; LAST MILLENNIUM; MULTI PROXIES; PALEOCLIMATES;

GEOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALPS;

EID: 84861860468     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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