Impact of postglacial warming on borehole reconstructions of last millennium temperatures

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1059-1066

  Rath, V ^a   Rouco, J F González ^a   Goosse, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA INVERSION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; POSTGLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING;

EID: 84873810535     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1059-2012     Document Type: Article

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