Preliminary multiproxy surface air temperature field reconstruction for China over the past millennium

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2058-2067

  Shi, Feng ^a,b   Yang, Bao ^a   Von Gunten, Lucien ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

climate change; global warming; paleoclimatology; temperature field reconstruction

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE REGIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DRIVING MECHANISM; EASTERN CHINA; ERRORS IN VARIABLES; FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; GRID POINTS; GRID SIZE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MULTI PROXIES; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PROXY DATA; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SKILL SCORE; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE PROXY; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WESTERN REGION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE EFFECTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84870829040     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4374-7     Document Type: Article

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