200 years of European temperature variability: Insights from and tests of the proxy surrogate reconstruction analog method

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-150

  Franke, Jörg ^a   González Rouco, J Fidel ^b   Frank, David ^a   Graham, Nicholas E ^c,d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog method; Climate reconstruction; Europe; Instrumental data; Paleoclimate; Proxy data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 79959799005     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0802-6     Document Type: Article

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