Testing the hypothesis of post-volcanic missing rings in temperature sensitive dendrochronological data

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 216-222

  Esper, Jan ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^b,e   Luterbacher, Jürg ^c   Krusic, Paul J ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Documentary evidence; Europe; Instrumental temperature data; Maximum latewood density; Tambora; Volcanic eruption

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ALPS; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; PYRENEES; SCANDINAVIA; SUMBAWA; SUNDA ISLES; TAMBORA; WEST NUSA TENGGARA;

EID: 84883463278     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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