Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 134, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-18

  Wilson, Rob ^a,b   Anchukaitis, Kevin ^b,c   Briffa, Keith R ^d   Büntgen, Ulf ^e,g,h   Cook, Edward ^b   D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^b   Davi, Nicole ^b,i   Esper, Jan ^j   Frank, Dave ^e   Gunnarson, Björn ^k   Hegerl, Gabi ^l   Helama, Samuli ^m   Klesse, Stefan ^e   Krusic, Paul J ^f,k   Linderholm, Hans W ⁿ   Myglan, Vladimir ^o   Osborn, Timothy J ^d   Rydval, Miloš ^a,p   Schneider, Lea ^j   Schurer, Andrew ^l   Wiles, Greg ^b,q   Zhang, Peng ⁿ   Zorita, Eduardo ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^f Navarino Environmental Obs   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h Global Change Research Centre AS CR   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^k STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^m FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^o SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^p CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^q 931 College Mall   (United States)

^r INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

CMIP5 models; Last millennium; Northern hemisphere; Reconstruction; Summer temperatures; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REPAIR;

LAST MILLENNIUMS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; STATISTICAL CALIBRATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TREE RINGS;

SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; FUTURE PROSPECT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TREE RING;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84953380065     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.005     Document Type: Review

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