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PROXY DATA/PROXY EVIDENCE/PROXY INDICATORS/PROXY RECORDS

Data, evidence, indicators or records relating to an environmental variable that were derived indirectly or reconstructed from natural archives (proxy sources) rather than directly by observation or measurement.

[See alsomultiproxy approach, orbital tuning, palaeoclimatology, palaeolimnology, palaeoprecipitation proxies, palaeotemperature proxies, proxy climatic indicator, pseudo-proxy approach]

John A.MatthewsSwansea University
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247501.n3141
10.4135/9781446247501.n3141

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