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  title info:
    title: Dendroclimatology
    sub title: Progress and Prospects
  name:
    name part: Hughes, Malcolm K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Swetnam, Thomas W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Diaz, Henry F.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 368 p. online resource.
  abstract: A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it is important to obtain estimates of long past climate variations spanning multiple centuries and millennia. These longer time perspectives are needed for assessing the unusualness of recent climate changes, as well as for providing insight on the range, variation and overall dynamics of the climate system over time spans exceeding available records from instruments, such as rain gauges and thermometers. Tree rings have become increasingly valuable in providing this long-term information because extensive data networks have been developed in temperate and boreal zones of the Earth, and quantitative methods for analyzing these data have advanced. Tree rings are among the most useful paleoclimate information sources available because they provide a high degree of chronological accuracy, high replication, and extensive spatial coverage spanning recent centuries. With the expansion and extension of tree-ring data and analytical capacity new climatic insights from tree rings are being used in a variety of applications, including for interpretation of past changes in ecosystems and human societies. This volume presents an overview of the current state of dendroclimatology, its contributions over the last 30 years, and its future potential. The material included is useful not only to those who generate tree-ring records of past climate-dendroclimatologists, but also to users of their results-climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists and archeologists. ‘With the pressing climatic questions of the 21st century demanding a deeper understanding of the climate system and our impact upon it, this thoughtful volume comes at critical moment. It will be of fundamental importance in not only guiding researchers, but in educating scie…
  table of contents: part i: introductory section.-part ii: scientific bases of dentroclimatology -- part iii: reconstruction of climate patterns and values relative to today’s climate -- part iv: applications of dendroclimatology -- part v: overview.
  note: edited by Malcolm K. Hughes, Thomas W. Swetnam, Henry F. Diaz.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Trees
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Tree Biology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 11
  identifier: 9781402057250
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5725-0
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    record creation date: 101029
    record change date: 20151204151204.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-5725-0