Distichia peat - A new stable isotope paleoclimate proxy for the Andes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 298-308

  Skrzypek, Grzegorz ^a   Engel, Zbyněk ^b   Chuman, Tomáš ^b   Šefrna, Luděk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Distichia; Peat; Peruvian Andes; South America; Stable isotope; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDINAL TRANSECT; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTRIBUTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC TRENDS; DISTICHIA; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GROWING SEASON; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOTEMPERATURES; PEAT CORES; PERUVIAN ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES;

PEAT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEAT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ANDES;

DISTICHIA;

EID: 80955179032     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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