Filling the Eastern European gap in millennium-long temperature reconstructions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1773-1778

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b,c   Kyncl, Tomás ^d   Ginzler, Christian ^a   Jacks, David S ^e   Esper, Jan ^f   Tegel, Willy ^g   Heussner, Karl Uwe ^h   Kyncl, Josef ^d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d Moravian Dendro Labor   (Czech Republic)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^h GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Eastern Europe; Human history

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; TREE; WARMING;

EID: 84873165174     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211485110     Document Type: Article

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