Arctic trees and their isotopic (both radioactive and stable) ratios are sensitive to solar activity, light intensity, temperature and humidity conditions through photosynthetic process. The project aims to study how terrestrial and extraterrestrial anomalic factors show up in the tree-ring time series via combination of multi-proxy isotopic and wood growth and density measurements on the long Arctic treering series of Pinus sylvestris in two latitudes in Finnish Lapland.
Scientific publications (Pekka Nöjd, Samuli Helama, Harri Mäkinen)