Technical note: Estimating unbiased transfer-function performances in spatially structured environments

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1215-1223

  Trachsel, Mathias ^a,c   Telford, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; YIELD RESPONSE;

EID: 84971304015     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1215-2016     Document Type: Article

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