Impact of Recent North-Atlantic Anomalies on Surrounding Land Areas Based on Dendroclimatic Evidence

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1992
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Geophysical Research Letters
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Dec 2
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19
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23
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2321-2324
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0094-8276
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ISI:A1992KC55900011
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Tree rings are useful indicators of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability. In this paper we show that tree-ring data from die northwestern Atlantic sector may reflect the great negative salinity (GSA) and related positive sea ice anomalies of the 1960's-70's. Along with cold surface air temperatures at coastal land stations, there were declines in ring widths in the 1970's in temperature-sensitive birch trees in southern Greenland, white spruce in Labrador, and white spruce and white pine from Newfoundland. Tree-ring and other data from both sides of the North Atlantic also indicate a decadal-scale warm event, with subsequent cooling, around the 1820's-1830's.

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