Climate in Medieval Time

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5644, 2003, Pages 404-405

  Bradley, Raymond S ^a   Hughes, Malcolm K ^b   Diaz, Henry F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0142020929     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090372     Document Type: Review

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16. Supporting material is available on Science Online at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5644/ 404/DC1.
17. We thank J. Hansen, J. Lean, M. Mann, and J. Salinger for comments. Support by the U.S. Department of Energy (R.S.B., H.F.D.), NSF Earth System History program (M.K.H.), and NOAA Earth System History program (R.S.B., M.K.H.).