An investigation of the controls on Irish precipitation δ18O values on monthly and event timescales

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 977-993

  Baldini, Lisa M ^a   McDermott, Frank ^b   Baldini, James U L ^a   Fischer, Matthew J ^c   Möllhoff, Martin ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back trajectories; Moisture source region; NAO index; Oxygen isotopes; Paleoclimate; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TIMESCALE;

IRELAND;

EID: 77958152399     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0774-6     Document Type: Article

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