A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 471-484

  McCarroll, Danny ^a   Loader, Neil J ^a   Jalkanen, Risto ^b   Gagen, Mary H ^a   Grudd, Håkan ^c   Gunnarson, Björn E ^c   Kirchhefer, Andreas J ^d   Friedrich, Michael ^e   Linderholm, Hans W ^f   Lindholm, Markus ^b   Boettger, Tatjana ^g   Los, Sietse O ^a   Remmele, Sabine ^e   Kononov, Yuri M ^h   Yamazaki, Yasuhiro H ^i,j   Young, Giles H F ^a   Zorita, Eduardo ^k  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g Helmholtz Centre for Environment   (Germany)

^h RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; climate change; solar forcing; tree rings; volcanic forcing

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; GROWTH RATE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EUROPE; KOLA PENINSULA; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORWAY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84873847248     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612467483     Document Type: Article

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