Reconstruction of temperature in the Central Alps during the past 2000 yr from a δ18O stalagmite record

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 741-751

  Mangini, Augusto ^a   Spotl C ^b   Verdes, P ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Central Alps; Holocene; Medieval Warm Period; Stable isotopes; Stalagmite record; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STALAGMITE;

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE FORCING; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPELEOTHEM;

ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 21344461208     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.010     Document Type: Article

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