Assimilation of time-averaged pseudoproxies for climate reconstruction

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 426-441

  Steiger, Nathan J ^a   Hakim, Gregory J ^a   Steig, Eric J ^a   Battisti, David S ^a   Roe, Gerard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Paleoclimate; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; PALEOCLIMATES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KALMAN FILTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84892469882     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00693.1     Document Type: Article

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