On Climate Reconstruction using Bivalve Shells: Three Methods to Interpret the Chemical Signature of a Shell, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...