An attempt to dendroclimatic reconstruction of winter temperature based on multispecies tree-ring widths and extreme years chronologies (example of Upper Silesia, Southern Poland)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 73-89

  Opała, Magdalena ^a   Mendecki, Maciej J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING; WINTER;

POLAND; SILESIA; UPPER SILESIA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 84891665405     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0865-5     Document Type: Article

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