Carbon in Canada's boreal forest—a synthesis

WA Kurz, CH Shaw, C Boisvenue… - Environmental …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Canada's managed boreal forest, 54% of the nation's total boreal forest area, stores 28 Pg
carbon (C) in biomass, dead organic matter, and soil pools. The net C balance is dominated …

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

PD Jones, KR Briffa, TJ Osborn, JM Lough… - The …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a
PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in …

[HTML][HTML] A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

PAGES2k Consortium - Scientific data, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to
placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present …

A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

B Yang, C Qin, J Wang, M He… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
An annually resolved and absolutely dated ring-width chronology spanning 4,500 y has
been constructed using subfossil, archaeological, and living-tree juniper samples from the …

Global signatures and dynamical origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

ME Mann, Z Zhang, S Rutherford, RS Bradley… - science, 2009 - science.org
Global temperatures are known to have varied over the past 1500 years, but the spatial
patterns have remained poorly defined. We used a global climate proxy network to …

Polar regions

JN Larsen, OA Anisimov, A Constable… - Climate change 2014 …, 2015 - elibrary.ru
Several recent climate impact assessments on polar regions have been undertaken,
including the synthesis report on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (AMAP …

A model-tested North Atlantic Oscillation reconstruction for the past millennium

P Ortega, F Lehner, D Swingedouw… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the major source of variability in winter
atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere, with large impacts on temperature …

Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling

DS Kaufman, DP Schneider, NP McKay, CM Ammann… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The temperature history of the first millennium CE is sparsely documented, especially in the
Arctic. We present a synthesis of decadally resolved proxy temperature records from …

Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

J Esper, DC Frank, M Timonen, E Zorita… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
Solar insolation changes, resulting from long-term oscillations of orbital configurations, are
an important driver of Holocene climate,. The forcing is substantial over the past 2,000 years …

Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records

S Guillet, C Corona, M Stoffel, M Khodri, F Lavigne… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The eruption of Samalas in Indonesia in 1257 ranks among the largest sulfur-rich eruptions
of the Common Era with sulfur deposition in ice cores reaching twice the volume of the …