Ice-core data evidence for a prominent near 20 year time-scale of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Chylek, Petr ^a   Folland, Chris K ^b   Dijkstra, Henk A ^c   Lesins, Glen ^d   Dubey, Manvendra K ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

ARCTIC TEMPERATURE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DATA SETS; ICE CORE; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; SHORT TIME SCALE; SINGLE TIME SERIES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TIME-SCALES;

ICE;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; ICE CORE; PERIODICITY; TIMESCALE; WAVE-ICE INTERACTION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 79959926417     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047501     Document Type: Article

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