Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change

Maarten Blaauw; J.A. Christen

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00516.x

Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change

Maarten Blaauw, J.A. Christen

Environmental Change and Resilience

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Abstract

Raised bog peat deposits form important archives for reconstructing past changes in climate. Precise and reliable age models are of vital importance for interpreting such archives. We propose enhanced, Markov chain Monte Carlo based methods for obtaining age models from radiocarbon-dated peat cores, based on the assumption of piecewise linear accumulation. Included are automatic choice of sections, a measure of the goodness of fit and outlier downweighting. The approach is illustrated by using a peat core from the Netherlands.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	805-816
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics)
Volume	54(4)
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00516.x
Publication status	Published - Aug 2005

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General Mathematics
Statistics and Probability

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