Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 862-866

  Esper, Jan ^a   Frank, David C ^b,c   Timonen, Mauri ^d   Zorita, Eduardo ^e   Wilson, Rob J S ^f   Luterbacher, Jürg ^g   Holzkämper, Steffen ^a   Fischer, Nils ^h   Wagner, Sebastian ^e   Nievergelt, Daniel ^b,c   Verstege, Anne ^b,c   Büntgen, Ulf ^b,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; MEDIEVAL; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; ROMAN ERA; TREE RING;

ARCTIC; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84870357754     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1589     Document Type: Article

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