Northern European summer temperature variations over the Common Era from integrated tree-ring density records

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 487-494

  Esper, Jan ^a   Düthorn, Elisabeth ^a   Krusic, Paul J ^b,c   Timonen, Mauri ^d   Büntgen, Ulf ^e,f,g  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Navarino Environmental Observatory   (Greece)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Finland; Late Holocene; Sweden; Temperature reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TREE RING;

FINLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 84904245654     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2726     Document Type: Article

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