Estimating uncertainty in pooled stable isotope time-series from tree-rings

Chemical Geology

Volumn 294-295, Issue , 2012, Pages 243-248

  Woodley, E J ^a,b,c   Loader, N J ^b   McCarroll, D ^b   Young, G H F ^b   Robertson, I ^b   Heaton, T H E ^c   Gagen, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Error; Pooling; Proxy time series; Stable isotopes; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; POOLING; PROXY TIME-SERIES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TREE RINGS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; ISOTOPES; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREE RING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ERRORS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICS; TREES;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84855500904     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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