Separating forced from chaotic climate variability over the past millennium

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6954-6973

  Schurer, Andrew P ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^a   Mann, Michael E ^b   Tett, Simon F B ^a   Phipps, Steven J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MEDIEVAL CLIMATE ANOMALY (MCA); MULTI-MODEL SIMULATIONS; PROXY RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; REPAIR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84878419065     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00826.1     Document Type: Article

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