The influence of non-stationary teleconnections on palaeoclimate reconstructions of ENSO variance using a pseudoproxy framework

Climate of the Past

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1733-1749

  Batehup, R ^a,b   McGregor, S ^a,b   Gallant, A J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84951738474     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-1733-2015     Document Type: Article

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