Calibrations of Bermuda corals against large-scale sea surface temperature and sea level pressure pattern time series and implications for climate reconstructions

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Crueger, Taute ^a   Kuhnert, H ^b   Patzold J ^b   Zorita, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL REEF; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPSCALING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 34547886837     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006903     Document Type: Article

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