Late Holocene climate oscillations and solar fluctuations from speleothem STAL-AH-1, Sauerland, Germany: A numerical perspective

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Jackson, A S ^a   McDermott, F ^a   Mangini, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; ISOTOPES; SOLAR RADIATION;

KINETIC ENRICHMENT; STALAGMITE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; SAUERLAND;

EID: 44349150942     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032689     Document Type: Article

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