Climate of the last millennium: Ensemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1089-1110

  Bothe, O ^a,b,e   Jungclaus, J H ^a   Zanchettin, D ^a   Zorita, E ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84882750620     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1089-2013     Document Type: Article

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