The relationship between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and temperature variability in China during the last millennium

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 653-658

  Wang, Jianglin ^a,b   Yang, Bao ^a   Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^c   Zhao, Yan ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; China; Last millennium; Multidecadal time scales; Temperature variability

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CHINA;

EID: 84885846172     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2658     Document Type: Article

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