A monthly global paleo-reanalysis of the atmosphere from 1600 to 2005 for studying past climatic variations.

ABSTRACT: Climatic variations at decadal scales such as phases of accelerated warming or weak monsoons have profound effects on society and economy. Studying these variations requires insights from the past. However, most current reconstructions provide either time series or fields of regional surface climate, which limit our understanding of the underlying dynamics. Here, we present the first monthly paleo-reanalysis covering the period 1600 to 2005. Over land, instrumental temperature and surface pressure observations, temperature indices derived from historical documents and climate sensitive tree-ring measurements were assimilated into an atmospheric general circulation model ensemble using a Kalman filtering technique. This data set combines the advantage of traditional reconstruction methods o

SUBMITTER: Franke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5460593 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature