Holocene Climate Change and the Evidence for Solar and other Forcings

Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming: A Holocene Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 138-162

  Beer, Jürg ^a   van Geel, Bas ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change and impact on human society; Forcing mechanisms; Holocene climate change and solar and other forcings; Marine sediments and stalagmites; Orbital forcing; Oscillations in ocean system; Peat deposits and climate change; Solar activity and solar forcing; Tree rings and climate

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849206795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300932.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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