Tree-ring-reconstructed summer temperatures from Northwestern North America during the last nine centuries

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3001-3012

  Anchukaitis, Kevin J ^a,d   D'Arrigo, Rosanne D ^a   Andreu Hayles, Laia ^a,e   Frank, David ^b,c   Verstege, Anne ^b,c   Curtis, Ashley ^a   Buckley, Brendan M ^a   Jacoby, Gordon C ^a   Cook, Edward R ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e Unitat de Dinàmica I Impacte Climàtic UDIC Institut Català de Ciències del Clima   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; DIVERGENCE PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIATIVE FORCING; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREE RING; WARMING;

FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; METEOROLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 84878145517     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00139.1     Document Type: Article

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