Not exact matches
Briffa, K.R., Osborn T. J., Schweingruber F. H., Harris I. C., Jones P. D., Shiyatov S. G., and Vaganov E. A. (2001) Low - frequency Temperature Variations from a
Northern Tree -
ring Density Network, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 2929 - 2941.
Briffa K.R., Jones P.D. and Schweingruber F.H. (1994) Summer Temperatures across
Northern North America: Regional Reconstructions from 1760 Using
Tree -
ring Densities, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 835 - 25.
As we shall examine shortly, the source of «the decline» come from temperature reconstructions calculated from
tree -
ring density at high
northern latitudes (Briffa 1998).
Up until the 1960s, there is a very close correlation between the
density of growth
rings in
trees in
northern latitudes and summer temperatures, but after this it starts to break down.
In the
northern Boreal zone,
tree growth indicators (
ring width, maximum
density, annual height increment, minimum blue reflectance) suggest that growth during the 11th Century was almost as high as, and statistically indistinguishable from,
tree growth during the 20th Century.
«new maximum - latewood -
density (MXD) and
tree -
ring width (TRW) data from the Torneträsk region of
northern Sweden»
This paper presents updated
tree -
ring width (TRW) and maximum
density (MXD) from Torneträsk in
northern Sweden, now covering the period ad 500 — 2004.
Instrumental temperatures (1871 - 1997) are in black, circum - Arctic temperature proxies [1600 - 1990, from (2 — Overpeck)-RSB- are in yellow,
northern NH
tree -
ring densities [1550 - 1960, from (3 — Briffa et al 1998 (Nature); Briffa et al 1998 (Proc Roy Soc London)-RRB-, processed to retain low - frequency signals] are in pale blue, NH temperature proxies [1000 - 1992, from (4 — Jones et al 1998)-RSB- are in red, global climate proxies [1000 - 1980, from (5, 6 — MBH99)-RSB- are in purple, and an average of three
northern Eurasian
tree -
ring width chronologies [1 - 1993, from (10 — Briffa et al 2000)-RSB- is in green.