An ensemble of European summer and winter temperature reconstructions back to 1500

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Riedwyl, N ^a   Luterbacher, J ^a   Wanner, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MILITARY OPERATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPAIR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

20TH CENTURIES; EUROPEANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROXY DATUMS; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; REGULARIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; ROBUST RECONSTRUCTIONS; SEASONAL TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL FIELDS; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITIES; TEMPORAL AVAILABILITIES;

RESTORATION;

PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 58249092217     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035395     Document Type: Article

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