Late Quaternary temperature changes seen in world-wide continental heat flow measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1947-1950

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; THERMAL GRADIENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL HEAT FLOW MEASUREMENTS; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LATE QUATERNARY TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HOLOCENES; LATE QUATERNARY; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0031212749     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01846     Document Type: Article

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