Testing the robustness of a precipitation proxy-based North Atlantic Oscillation reconstruction

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-94

  Lehner, Flavio ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate model simulations; Climate reconstruction; Last millennium; North Atlantic Oscillation; Proxy validation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; LAST MILLENNIUM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PROXY VALIDATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; MEDIEVAL; MODEL VALIDATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE;

EID: 84861473257     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.025     Document Type: Article

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