Comments on "reconstruction of the extratropical NH mean temperature over the last millennium with a method that preserves low-frequency variability"

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7991-7997

  Moberg, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate records; Climate variability; Paleoclimate; Statistical techniques; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; PALEOCLIMATES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 84859920242     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00404.1     Document Type: Letter

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