Fingerprints of extreme climate events in Pinus sylvestris tree rings from Bulgaria

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 211-227

  Panayotov, Momchil Panayotov ^a,b   Zafirov, Nikolay ^a   Cherubini, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Bulgaria)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balkan Peninsula; Climatic extremes; Frost rings; Intra annual density fluctuations (IADF); Light rings; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EXTREME WEATHER;

BALKAN PENINSULAS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC EXTREMES; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; INTRAANNUAL DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS (IADFS); METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS; TREE RINGS;

FORESTRY;

BALKANS; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; FROST; METEOROLOGY; RINGS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84872499518     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0789-1     Document Type: Article

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