Reconstruction of monthly NAO and EU indices back to AD 1675

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2745-2748

  Luterbacher, Jürg ^a   Schmutz, Christoph ^a   Gyalistras, Dimitrios ^a   Xoplaki, Eleni ^a,b   Wanner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EURASIAN CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DATA AVAILABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE; STATION PRESSURE; SYSTEMATIC TESTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033400492     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900576     Document Type: Article

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