A Bayesian partition modelling approach to resolve spatial variability in climate records from borehole temperature inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 651-666

  Hopcroft, Peter O ^a,c   Gallagher, Kerry ^b   Pain, Christopher C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat flow; Probability distributions; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATABASE; HEAT FLOW; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PROBABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 67749120320     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04192.x     Document Type: Article

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