Assessing past climate changes from proxy records: An iterative process between discovery and observations

Quaternary International

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-16

  Lal, Devendra ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; METHODOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 1042298659     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(03)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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