North Atlantic summer storm tracks over Europe dominated by internal variability over the past millennium

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 630-635

  Gagen, Mary H ^a   Zorita, Eduardo ^b   Mccarroll, Danny ^a   Zahn, Matthias ^b   Young, Giles H F ^a   Robertson, Iain ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; STOCHASTICITY; STORM TRACK; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84980329511     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2752     Document Type: Article

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