Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b,c   Di Cosmo, Nicola ^d,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; CHRONOLOGY; COLD STRESS; HUMAN; HUNGARY; HUNGER; MONGOLIC PEOPLE; PASTURELAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SUMMER;

EID: 84971343000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25606     Document Type: Article

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