Exploring errors in paleoclimate proxy reconstructions using Monte Carlo simulations: Paleotemperature from mollusk and coral geochemistry

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 433-450

  Carre M ^a   Sachs, J P ^b   Wallace, J M ^c   Favier, C ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CORAL; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; MIMICRY; MOLLUSC; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

ANTHOZOA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84858828829     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-433-2012     Document Type: Article

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