Regional climate regime classification as a qualitative tool for interpreting multi-proxy palaeoclimate data spatial patterns: A New Zealand case study

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 407-433

  Lorrey, Andrew ^a,b   Fowler, Anthony M ^a   Salinger, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

circulation; climate regimes; Holocene; Inter decadal Pacific Oscillation; multi proxy; New Zealand; palaeoclimate reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; HOLOCENE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34548538044     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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