Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 93-118

  Ruddiman, W F ^a   Fuller, D Q ^b   Kutzbach, J E ^c   Tzedakis, P C ^b   Kaplan, J O ^d   Ellis, E C ^e   Vavrus, S J ^c   Roberts, C N ^f   Fyfe, R ^f   He, F ^c,g   Lemmen, C ^h   Woodbridge, J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

anthropogenic; climate; Holocene

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; HOLOCENES; INTERGLACIATION; LATE HOLOCENE; PRE-INDUSTRIAL;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY;

EID: 84969377025     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015RG000503     Document Type: Review

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