Comparison of climate field reconstruction techniques: Application to Europe

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 381-395

  Riedwyl, Nadja ^a   Küttel, Marcel ^a   Luterbacher, Jürg ^a   Wanner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ECHO G4; European temperature reconstruction; NCAR CSM 1.4; Paleoclimate; Principal component regression; Pseudoproxy data; RegEM

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OPTIMIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 58149096838     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0395-5     Document Type: Article

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