Changes in atmospheric circulation and the Arctic Oscillation preserved within a millennial length reconstruction of summer cloud cover from northern Fennoscandia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 495-507

  Young, Giles H F ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^a   Loader, Neil J ^a   Gagen, Mary H ^a   Kirchhefer, Andreas J ^b,c   Demmler, Joanne C ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c Dendroøkologen ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Climate change; Cloud cover; Crop failure; Famine; Fennoscandia; Norway; Stable carbon isotopes; Sunshine; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; FAMINE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING;

FENNOSCANDIA; NORWAY;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84862984857     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1246-3     Document Type: Article

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