The IPCC on a heterogeneous Medieval Warm Period

Climatic Change

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 267-273

  Esper, Jan ^a,b   Frank, David ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PROXY RECORDS; SPATIAL HOMOGENEITY; SPATIAL SIGNATURE; WORKING GROUPS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE FORCING; HETEROGENEITY; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WARMING;

EID: 67349103395     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9492-z     Document Type: Article

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