The effect of calibration data set selection on quantitative palaeoclimatic reconstructions

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1650-1654

  Salonen, J Sakari ^a,b   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Birks, H John B ^c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

modern analogue technique; northern Europe; pollen; temperature optima; weighted averaging

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84885450617     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613496295     Document Type: Article

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