The late Holocene kauri chronology: Assessing the potential of a 4500-year record for palaeoclimate reconstruction

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue , 2014, Pages 128-142

  Boswijk, G ^a   Fowler, A M ^a   Palmer, J G ^b   Fenwick, P ^c   Hogg, A ^d   Lorrey, A ^e   Wunder, J ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Gondwana Tree Ring Laboratory   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agathis australis; Dendrochronology; Dendroclimatology; ENSO; Holocene; Kauri; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WETLANDS;

AGATHIS AUSTRALIS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ENSO; HOLOCENES; KAURI; NEW ZEALAND;

FORESTRY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AGATHIS; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CLIMATES; NEW ZEALAND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 84896529649     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.02.022     Document Type: Article

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