Borehole temperatures and a baseline for 20th-century global warming estimates

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5306, 1997, Pages 1618-1621

  Harris, Robert N ^a   Chapman, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BASELINE TEMPERATURE; BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 0030620641     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5306.1618     Document Type: Article

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25. tob for southeastern and western Utah, respectively.
26. We thank A. H. Lachenbruch, whose early work on climate reconstruction from borehole temperatures stimulated parts of this study, for providing constructive comments. Supported by the National Science Foundation (EAR-9104292 and EAR-9205031) and grant project No. 92037 of the Czech-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation Program.