Latent heat effects in subsurface heat transport modelling and their impact on palaeotemperature reconstructions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 236-245

  Mottaghy, Darius ^a   Rath, Volker ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite difference methods; Geothermics; Inversion; Palaeocimate

Indexed keywords

COLD REGION; ENTHALPY; HEAT CAPACITY; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 33646044093     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02843.x     Document Type: Article

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