Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4556-4562

  Schneider, Lea ^a   Smerdon, Jason E ^b   Büntgen, Ulf ^c   Wilson, Rob J S ^b,d   Myglan, Vladimir S ^e   Kirdyanov, Alexander V ^f   Esper, Jan ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

beta value; Little Ice Age; maximum latewood density; millennial reconstruction; tree rings; volcanic cooling

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BETA VALUE; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TREE RINGS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

COOLING; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84934438275     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063956     Document Type: Article

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