Holocene climate variability and periodicities in south-central Sweden, as interpreted from peat humification analysis

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 387-395

  Borgmark, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate variation; Cycles; Holocene; Lomb Scargle Fourier spectral analysis; Peat humification; Periodicities; Sweden; Tephra

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUMIFICATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PEAT; TEPHRA;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 18844456314     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl816rp     Document Type: Article

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