Variations in air and ground temperature and the POM-SAT model: Results from the Northern Hemisphere

Climate of the Past

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 611-621

  Harris, R N ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOREHOLE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; GUIDELINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 35048868392     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-3-611-2007     Document Type: Article

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