Effects of dating errors on nonparametric trend analyses of speleothem time series

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1637-1648

  Mudelsee, M ^a,b   Fohlmeister, J ^c   Scholz, D ^d  

^a Climate Risk Analysis   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

BUNKER CAVE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 84870165771     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1637-2012     Document Type: Article

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