The climate of Europe in recent centuries in the context of the climate of mid to high latitude northern hemisphere from borehole temperature logs

The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-126

  Majorowicz, Jacek ^a,b  

^a Northern Geothermal   (Canada)

^b University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

borehole temperature reconstructions; Europe; high latitude warming; Poland; proxy data; temperature variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857868295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3167-9_4     Document Type: Chapter

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