Tree Rings as Sensitive Proxies of Past Climate Change

• Main Author: Grudd, Håkan
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi (INK) 2006
• Subjects: Tree ring; width; density; climate; temperature; change; variability; sensitivity; Torneträsk; Tornetrask; Sweden; Fennoscandia; explosive; volcanic; eruption; Santorini; Thera; subfossil; Fitzroya; Chile; Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1034

In the boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere, time series of tree-ring width (TRW) and maximum density in the latewood (MXD) are highly correlated to local instrumental summer-temperature data and are thus widely used as proxies in high-resolution climate reconstructions. Hence, much of our pres...