Assessing the reproducibility of coral-based climate records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Stephans, Christie L ^a   Quinn, Terrence M ^a   Taylor, Frederick W ^b   Corrège, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

1620 Global change: Climate dynamics (3309); 3344 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309); 4267 Oceanography: General: Paleoceanography; 4825 Oceanography: Biological and chemical: Geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CORAL HEADS; REPLICATION TESTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CALCIUM; CORAL RECORD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 10644295570     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020343     Document Type: Article

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