A model-tested North Atlantic Oscillation reconstruction for the past millennium

Nature

Volumn 523, Issue 7558, 2015, Pages 71-74

  Ortega, Pablo ^a,d   Lehner, Flavio ^b,e   Swingedouw, Didier ^c   Masson Delmotte, Valerie ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^b   Casado, Mathieu ^a   Yiou, Pascal ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; MEDIEVAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GREENLAND; MIDDLE AGES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANO; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL LUZON; EUROPE; LUZON; MOUNT PINATUBO; PHILIPPINES; ZAMBALES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84938538247     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14518     Document Type: Article

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