Temperature trends over the past five centuries reconstructed from borehole temperatures

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6771, 2000, Pages 756-758

  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

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034677526     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001556     Document Type: Article

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