Technical Note: Probabilistically constraining proxy age-depth models within a Bayesian hierarchical reconstruction model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 533-545

  Werner, J P ^a   Tingley, M P ^b  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARVE;

EID: 84925683007     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-533-2015     Document Type: Article

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