Support for global climate reorganization during the "Medieval Climate Anomaly"

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1217-1245

  Graham, N E ^a,b   Ammann, C M ^c   Fleitmann, D ^d   Cobb, K M ^e   Luterbacher, J ^f  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global climate dynamics; Little Ice Age; Medieval Climate Anomaly; Tropical SSTs

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HADLEY CELL; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 80052271977     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0914-z     Document Type: Article

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