Inferring climate variability from nonlinear proxies: Application to palaeo-ENSO studies

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 31-50

  Emile Geay, J ^a   Tingley, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; NONLINEARITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CALABARZON; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; LAGUNA [CALABARZON]; LAKE CHALLA; PHILIPPINES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84956651730     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-31-2016     Document Type: Article

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