Reconciling reconstructed and simulated features of the winter Pacific/North American pattern in the early 19th century

Climate of the Past

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 939-958

  Zanchettin, D ^a,b   Bothe, O ^c   Lehner, F ^d,g   Ortega, P ^e   Raible, C C ^d   Swingedouw, D ^f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^f OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84933517659     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-939-2015     Document Type: Article

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