Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13252-13257

  Mann, Michael E ^a   Zhang, Zhihua ^a   Hughes, Malcolm K ^b   Bradley, Raymond S ^c   Miller, Sonya K ^a   Rutherford, Scott ^d   Ni, Fenbiao ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EARTH (PLANET); TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 51649128063     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805721105     Document Type: Article

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