Statistical downscaling of a climate simulation of the last glacial cycle: Temperature and precipitation over Northern Europe

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1489-1500

  Korhonen, N ^a,b   Venalainen A ^a   Seppa H ^b   Jarvinen H ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSCALING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84929142272     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1489-2014     Document Type: Article

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