Deriving century-long trends of surface temperature change from borehole temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-260

  Huang, Shaopeng ^a   Shen, Po Yu ^b   Pollack, Henry N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE; FEW PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE HISTORY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INVERSION RESULTS; LONG DURATION; NOISE LEVELS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIATION; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0029772619     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00020     Document Type: Article

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