Analysis of the Moberg et al. (2005) hemispheric temperature reconstruction

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 957-971

  Moberg, Anders ^a   Mohammad, Rezwan ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Northern hemisphere; Paleoclimatology; Pseudoproxies; Temperature reconstruction; Variance spectrum

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SMOOTHING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 54949134884     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0392-8     Document Type: Article

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