Extracting a common high frequency signal from Northern Quebec black spruce tree-rings with a Bayesian hierarchical model

One basic premise of dendroclimatology is that tree rings can be viewed as climate proxies, i.e. rings are assumed to contain some hidden information about past climate. From a statistical perspective, this extraction problem can be understood as the search of a hidden variable which represents the...

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Main Authors: J.-J. Boreux, P. Naveau, O. Guin, L. Perreault, J. Bernier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-10-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/5/607/2009/cp-5-607-2009.pdf