Data-driven modeling of surface temperature anomaly and solar activity trends

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 217-232

  Friedel, Michael J ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Global climate change; Land surface temperature anomalies; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warming Period; Quantile modeling; Reconstruction; Sea surface temperature anomalies; Self organizing map; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARMING PERIOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND SURFACE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAP; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NONLINEARITY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84861950661     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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