Mechanisms for European summer temperature response to solar forcing over the last millennium

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1487-1495

  Swingedouw, D ^a   Terray, L ^b   Servonnat, J ^a   Guiot, J ^c  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ICE COVER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84867484230     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1487-2012     Document Type: Article

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