Oceanic tracer and proxy time scales revisited

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-39

  Siberlin, C ^a   Wunsch, C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL ZONE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; TIMESCALE; TRACER;

EID: 78651395771     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-27-2011     Document Type: Article

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