Abstract
Subsurface temperature field forms an independent archive of past climate changes that is complementary to both the surface air temperature observations and the traditional climate proxy data, each with particular strengths and limitations. In this chapter, we focus on the contribution of temperature measurements in deep boreholes to the inference of climate history. The ground surface temperature variations can be reconstructed by inverting the borehole temperature perturbations. Moreover, the joint analysis of temperature recorded in borehole and surface air temperature time series yields estimates of the pre-observational mean of surface air temperature. We also show how the subsurface temperature variations by a short wavelength climate change can be modelled with a known time-dependent temperature boundary condition.
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Pasquale, V., Verdoya, M., Chiozzi, P. (2017). Subsurface Temperature and Climate Change Reconstruction. In: Geothermics. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52084-1_6
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