Atmosphere and ocean dynamics: Contributors to the European Little Ice Age?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 973-987

  Palastanga, V ^a   van der Schrier, G ^a   Weber, S L ^a   Kleinen, T ^b,c   Briffa, K R ^b   Osborn, T J ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Little Ice Age; Meridional Overturning Circulation; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 79952248755     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0751-0     Document Type: Article

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