Ice core and climate reanalysis analogs to predict Antarctic and Southern Hemisphere climate changes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 155, Issue , 2017, Pages 50-66

  Mayewski, P A ^a   Carleton, A M ^b   Birkel, S D ^a   Dixon, D ^a   Kurbatov, A V ^a   Korotkikh, E ^a   McConnell, J ^c   Curran, M ^d,e   Cole Dai, J ^f   Jiang, S ^g   Plummer, C ^d,h   Vance, T ^d   Maasch, K A ^a   Sneed, S B ^a   Handley, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analogs; Antarctica; Climate change; Climate reanalysis; Ice cores; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; METEOROLOGY; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION;

ANALOGS; ANTARCTICA; ICE CORE; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84997050427     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.017     Document Type: Article

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