STARDUST II - Spatial and Temporal Assessment
of high Resolution Depth profiles Using novel Sampling Technologies The fate of pollutants in fluvial and marine sediments in cross-border zones
On climate reconstruction using bivalves: three methods to interpret the chemical signature of a shell
Bauwens, M.; Ohlsson, H.; Barbé, K.; Beelaerts, V.; Dehairs, F.; Schoukens, J. (2011). On climate reconstruction using bivalves: three methods to interpret the chemical signature of a shell. Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 104(2): 104-111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.08.020
In: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. Elsevier: Amsterdam; London; New York, NY; Tokyo. ISSN 0169-2607; e-ISSN 1872-7565
To improve our understanding of the climate process and to assess the human impact on current global warming, past climate reconstruction is essential. The chemical composition of a bivalve shell is strongly coupled to environmental variations and therefore ancient shells are potential climate archives. The nonlinear nature of the relation between environmental condition (e.g. the seawater temperature) and proxy composition makes it hard to predict the former from the latter, however. In this paper we compare the ability of three nonlinear system identification methods to reconstruct the ambient temperature from the chemical composition of a shell. The comparison shows that nonlinear multi-proxy approaches are potentially useful tools for climate reconstructions and that manifold based methods result in smoother and more precise temperature reconstruction.
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