Past millennial solar forcing magnitude: A statistical hemispheric-scale climate model versus proxy data comparison

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2527-2537

  Hind, Alistair ^a   Moberg, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate model evaluation; Climate proxy data; Last millennium; Northern Hemisphere; Solar forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84886719914     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1526-6     Document Type: Article

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