The ‘hockey stick’ and the 1990s: a statistical perspective on reconstructing hemispheric temperatures
By: Bo Li, Douglas W. Nychka and Caspar M. Ammann
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00270.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 591 - 598
Submitted on: Mar 22, 2007
Accepted on: Jun 28, 2007
Published on: Jan 1, 2007
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2007 Bo Li, Douglas W. Nychka, Caspar M. Ammann, published by Stockholm University Press
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