Testing the climate sensitivity of peat-based paleoclimate reconstructions in mid-continental North America

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 720-731

  Booth, Robert K ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; FLOATING MATS; GREAT LAKES; HIGH LATITUDES; HUMID REGIONS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; PROXY RECORDS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SPACE AND TIME; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TESTATE AMOEBAE; WATER TABLE DEPTHS;

AQUIFERS; DROUGHT; LEAD; MOISTURE CONTROL; PEAT; REPAIR;

WETLANDS;

BOG; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DROUGHT; LEAD ISOTOPE; LEAD-LEAD DATING; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PEAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 76449102630     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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