A 1000-year reconstruction of summer precipitation from Ireland: Calibration of a peat-based palaeoclimate record

Quaternary International

Volumn 268, Issue , 2012, Pages 87-97

  Charman, Dan J ^a   Hohl, Veronica ^b   Blundell, Antony ^c   Mitchell, Fraser ^d   Newberry, Julia ^e   Oksanen, Pirita ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SUMMER; WATER TABLE;

IRELAND;

EID: 84863866605     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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