Quantitative summer temperature reconstruction derived from a combined biogenic Si and chironomid record from varved sediments of Lake Silvaplana (south-eastern Swiss Alps) back to AD 1177

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 2719-2730

  Trachsel, M ^a   Grosjean, M ^a   Larocque Tobler, I ^a,b   Schwikowski, M ^a,c   Blass, A ^d   Sturm, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BIOGENIC SILICA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INVERSE PREDICTION; INVERSE REGRESSION; LARGE PARTS; LEAST SQUARE; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; MAJOR AXIS; MAUNDER MINIMUM; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; PROGLACIAL LAKES; REDUCTION OF ERRORS; REGRESSION METHOD; REGRESSION MODEL; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR OF PREDICTIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SWISS ALPS; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RINGS; TYPE II; VOLCANIC FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICA; SOLAR ENERGY; VOLCANOES;

REPAIR;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FLY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILICON; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; SUMMER; TREE RING;

ALPS; GRAUBUNDEN; SILVAPLANERSEE; SWITZERLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 77955558732     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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