Ocean surface temperature variability: Large model-data differences at decadal and longer periods

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 16682-16687

  Laepple, Thomas ^a   Huybers, Peter ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Multiproxy synthesis; Proxy data reconstruction; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORAL; FORAMINIFER; LATE HOLOCENE; LATITUDE; MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84912096619     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412077111     Document Type: Article

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