Climate field reconstruction uncertainty arising from multivariate and nonlinear properties of predictors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 9127-9134

  Evans, M N ^a,b   Smerdon, J E ^c   Kaplan, A ^c   Tolwinski Ward, S E ^d   Gonzalez Rouco J F ^e  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d AIR Worldwide Corporation ^*  (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

climate field reconstruction; paleoclimate; pseudoproxy experiment; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

WAVE EFFECTS;

CLIMATE FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR TEMPERATURE; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PALEOCLIMATES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INFORMATION; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84921792631     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062063     Document Type: Article

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