Simulated European stalagmite record and its relation to a quasi-decadal climate mode

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-98

  Lohmann, G ^a   Wackerbarth, A ^b   Langebroek, P M ^a,d   Werner, M ^a   Fohlmeister, J ^b   Scholz, D ^c   Mangini, A ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CALCITE; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; KARST; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TELECONNECTION; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BUNKER CAVE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 84872696108     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-89-2013     Document Type: Article

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