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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-559-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-559-2015
Research article
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09 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 09 Jul 2015

Reconstructing bottom water temperatures from measurements of temperature and thermal diffusivity in marine sediments

F. Miesner, A. Lechleiter, and C. Müller

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Temperature fields in marine sediments are controlled by the geothermal steady state heat flow and the bottom water temperature. Thus, the current sediments' temperature field stores the history of bottom water temperature variation. The aim of this work is the inverse modeling of the bottom water temperature variation in the last year from instantaneous measurements of the depth-dependent temperature and the thermal diffusivity.