Relative departures in July temperatures in northern Canada for the past 6,000 yr.

Andrews, J. T., Davis, P. T., Mode, W. N., Nichols, H. and Short, S. K. (1981) Relative departures in July temperatures in northern Canada for the past 6,000 yr. Nature, 289 (5794). pp. 164-167. DOI 10.1038/289164a0.

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Abstract

There has been concern about recent temperature trends and the future effects of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere1,2; but instrumental records only cover a few decades to a few centuries and it is essential that proxy data sources, such as pollen spectra from peats and lake sediments, be carefully interpreted as climate records. Several workers have shown statistically significant associations between the modern pollen rain and climatic parameters, an approach that by-passes the recognition of pollen/vegetation units. Statistically defined equations that associate abiotic and biotic elements are called transfer functions. We report here on the application of transfer function equations to nine middle and late Holocene peat and lake sediment sequences from northern Canada (Fig. 1).

Document Type: Article
Keywords: July temperatures; northern Canada
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Projects: Enrichment
Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2016 07:46
Last Modified: 11 Apr 2016 07:46
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/32002

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