Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-877-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-877-2014
Research article
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30 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 30 Apr 2014

Blue intensity and density from northern Fennoscandian tree rings, exploring the potential to improve summer temperature reconstructions with earlywood information

J. A. Björklund, B. E. Gunnarson, K. Seftigen, J. Esper, and H. W. Linderholm

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