Inference of ground surface temperature history from subsurface temperature data: Interpreting ensembles of borehole logs

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 537-550

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Borehole temperature; Climate change; Inversion

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE HISTORY; INVERSION;

EID: 0030512020     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00878843     Document Type: Article

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