Abrupt temperature changes during the last 1,500 years

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 215-225

  Matyasovszky, István ^a   Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE CORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPELEOTHEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84875379160     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0725-8     Document Type: Article

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