A record of the Southern Oscillation Index for the past 2,000 years from precipitation proxies

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 611-614

  Yan, Hong ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Wang, Yuhong ^a,b   Huang, Wen ^c   Qiu, Shican ^a   Yang, Chengyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; IRRADIANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80052321814     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1231     Document Type: Article

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