Erroneous model field representations in multiple pseudoproxy studies: Corrections and implications

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 5548-5554

  Smerdon, Jason E ^a   Kaplan, Alexey ^a   Amrhein, Daniel E ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Paleoclimate; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; FIELD REPRESENTATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL DATA; ORIGINAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATES; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPERIMENTS;

CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77958140914     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3742.1     Document Type: Article

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