Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years

Climate Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-110

  Soon, Willie ^a,b   Baliunas, Sallie ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b Mount Wilson Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental change; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Paleoclimate proxies

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 0037474496     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr023089     Document Type: Article

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