Glacial varve thickness and 127 years of instrumental climate data: A comparison

Climatic Change

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 391-411

  Ohlendorf, Christian ^a   Niessen, Frank ^b   Weissert, Helmut ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL VARVE; PRECIPITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUMMER; VARVE THICKNESS;

ALPS; LAKE SILVAPLAUNA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030858808     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005376913455     Document Type: Article

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