Quantitative palaeoclimate reconstruction as an inverse problem: A Bayesian inference of late-Holocene climate on the eastern Tibetan Plateau from a peat cellulose δ 18O record

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 405-412

  Yu, Shi Yong ^a   Kang, Zhihai ^a   Zhou, Weijian ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; inverse proxy modeling; Markov chain; Monte Carlo; quantitative palaeoclimate reconstruction; transfer function

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; REACTION KINETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL WATER; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84858161735     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611425544     Document Type: Article

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