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- proper noun A large
peninsula in theRussian North that forms the northernmost part of mainland Eurasia and Asia inKrasnoyarsk kray,Russia .
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"Deep underneath the snow and ice of the Taimyr Peninsula in the Siberian tundra, preserved in large, permeable rocks called" dry aquifers, "artesian plants thousands of years old have been discovered."
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Further far east sites being considered are Yakutia and Taimyr.
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Forty-two of the cores turned out to be from a location called Balschaya Kamenka, some 400 km from Taimyr.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debunking Briffa’s Version of the Hockey Sticks 2009
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Several of these were much closer to Taimyr — Aykali River was one example, and another, Novaja Rieja, was almost next door.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debunking Briffa’s Version of the Hockey Sticks 2009
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While the original Taimyr site had something of a divergence problem, with narrowing ring widths implying cooler temperatures, the new composite site of Avam–Taimyr had a rather warmer twentieth century and a cooler Medieval Warm Period.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debunking Briffa’s Version of the Hockey Sticks 2009
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Taimyr wild reindeer populations: management experiment.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic 2009
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Summer temperatures in eastern Taimyr inferred from a 2427 - year late-Holocene tree-ring chronology and earlier floating series.
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Synecological analysis of yeasts in the Taimyr tundra.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Status and rational use of Taimyr population of wild reindeer.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic 2009
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It was also obvious that there was a great deal of alternative data available from the region, Briffa having been happy to supplement Taimyr with data from other locations such as Avam and Balschaya Kamenka.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debunking Briffa’s Version of the Hockey Sticks 2009
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