Northern Hemisphere hydroclimate variability over the past twelve centuries

Nature

Volumn 532, Issue 7597, 2016, Pages 94-98

  Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^a   Krusic, Paul J ^a,b   Sundqvist, Hanna S ^a   Zorita, Eduardo ^a   Brattström, Gudrun ^a   Frank, David ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Navarino Environmental Observatory   (Greece)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HARVEST; LAKE SEDIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY; WINTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; HYDROLOGY; SOIL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

CHINA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; UNITED STATES;

ICE; RAIN; SOIL;

ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HYDROLOGY; ICE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SOIL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84963588887     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17418     Document Type: Article

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