Climate of the Past www.clim-past.net 1814-9324 1814-9332 6 1 2010 10.5194/cp-6-93-2010 http://www.clim-past.net/6/93/2010/ http://www.clim-past.net/6/93/2010/cp-6-93-2010.html http://www.clim-past.net/6/93/2010/cp-6-93-2010.pdf 93 114 2010-02-23 Dendroclimatology in Fennoscandia – from past accomplishments to future potential H. W. Linderholm hansl@gvc.gu.se J. A. Björklund K. Seftigen B. E. Gunnarson H. Grudd J.-H. Jeong I. Drobyshev Y. Liu Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ume&aring;, Sweden Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU, Alnarp, Sweden State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi´an, China Fennoscandia has a strong tradition in dendrochronology, and its large tracts of boreal forest make the region well suited for the development of tree-ring chronologies that extend back several thousands of years. Two of the world's longest continuous (most tree-ring chronologies are annually resolved) tree-ring width chronologies are found in northern Fennoscandia, with records from Torneträsk and Finnish Lapland covering the last ca. 7500 yr. 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