Sentences with phrase «using palaeo»
Older marine sediments can be dated using palaeo - magnetism.
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«It used to be just a pat answer that you could not get dense settlements of people living in complex social organisations without this productive crop,» says Deborah Pearsall, a palaeo - ethnobotanist at the University of Missouri.
This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.
A new paper by Levermann et al. in PNAS uses the record of past rates of sea level rise from palaeo archives and numerical computer models to understand how much sea level rise we can expect per degree of warming in the future.
«[M] y own extensive work using these [palaeo] data has led me to the conclusion that they are not well suited for reconstructing past climate extremes.
The sediments can be compared to palaeo magnetostratigraphic data, and this can be used as a proxy age determination.
Using simulations of the last millennium to understand climate variability seen in palaeo - observations: Similar variation of Iceland - Scotland overflow strength and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
This insight, backed by the palaeo - climatic record (see Chapter 2, Section 2.4), is a new challenge for global change science because now thresholds have to be identified and their values need to be estimated using the entire hierarchy of climate models.
An index used in many climate change detection studies is global mean surface temperature, either as estimated from the instrumental record of the last 140 years, or from palaeo - reconstructions.