Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook, D. Dukpa, A. E. Putnam, S. Rupper, J. Schaefer
An annual temperature reconstruction, in degrees centigrade, produced from a 638 year long Himalayan spruce chronology. The chronology is a composite chronology composed of samples from two nearby sites in Bhutan.
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Citation
Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook, D. Dukpa, A. E. Putnam, S. Rupper, J. Schaefer (2015) Bhutan 638 year tree-ring summer temperature reconstruction. NCDC-Paleoclimatology. World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder, and NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/18319
References
Krusic PJ, Cook ER, Dukpa D, Putnam AE, Rupper S, Schaefer J (2015) Six hundred thirty-eight years of summer temperature variability over the Bhutanese Himalaya. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 2988–2994. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063566
Comments
This dataset has three responsible scientists: Paul J. Krusic, Navarino Environmental Observatory, Costa Navarino, Greece and Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Edward R. Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; D. Dukpa, Department of Forest and Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest Services, Yusipang, Bhutan.
GCMD science keywords
Earth Science > Climate Indicators > Paleoclimate Indicators > Paleoclimate Reconstructions > Air Temperature Reconstruction
GCMD location
Continent > Asia > Southcentral Asia > Bhutan
Project
US. National Science Foundation (NSF) grants EAR-1304351 and EAR-1304397
Publisher
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Published
2016-04-23 14:08:30