Low-frequency oscillations in temperature-proxy records and implications for recent climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 563-566

  Mahasenan, Natesan ^a   Watts, Robert G ^b   Dowlatabadi, Hadi ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INHERENT VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS; NATURAL CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROXY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; TEMPERATURE RECORD;

EID: 0031086989     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00319     Document Type: Article

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