Statistical framework for evaluation of climate model simulations by use of climate proxy data from the last millennium-Part 3: Practical considerations, relaxed assumptions, and using tree-ring data to address the amplitude of solar forcing

Climate of the Past

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 425-448

  Moberg, A ^a   Sundberg, R ^a   Grudd, H ^a   Hind, A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

EID: 84924674864     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-425-2015     Document Type: Article

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