Bayesian hierarchical modeling for temperature reconstruction from geothermal data

DOI10.1214/10-AOAS452MaRDI QIDQ641082zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jenný Brynjarsdóttir, L. Mark Berliner

Publication date 21 October 2011

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4905

zbMATH Keywords

heat equationpaleoclimatesensitivity analysesboreholesborrowing strengthclimate proxiesphysical-statistical modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Geostatistics (86A32) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35)

Abstract: We present a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach to paleoclimate reconstruction using borehole temperature profiles. The approach relies on modeling heat conduction in solids via the heat equation with step function, surface boundary conditions. Our analysis includes model error and assumes that the boundary conditions are random processes. The formulation also enables separation of measurement error and model error. We apply the analysis to data from nine borehole temperature records from the San Rafael region in Utah. We produce ground surface temperature histories with uncertainty estimates for the past 400 years. We pay special attention to use of prior parameter models that illustrate borrowing strength in a combined analysis for all nine boreholes. In addition, we review selected sensitivity analyses.

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