Inferring changes in ENSO amplitude from the variance of proxy records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1197-1204

  Russon, T ^a   Tudhope, A W ^a   Collins, M ^b   Hegerl, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ENSO; proxy; variance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATIC INDEX; ENSO; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; PROXY; PROXY RECORDS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; VARIANCE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GUIDELINE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924860749     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062331     Document Type: Article

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