The anomalous winter of 1783-1784: Was the Laki eruption or an analog of the 2009-2010 winter to blame?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^a   Seager, Richard ^a   Smerdon, Jason E ^a   Legrande, Allegra N ^b   Cook, Edward R ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DATA SOURCE; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; ICELANDICS; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTI-STAGE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; WESTERN EUROPE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOG; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOW COVER; TREE RING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND; LAKI;

EID: 79952659566     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046696     Document Type: Article

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