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North American regional climate reconstruction from ground surface temperature histories
Fernando Jaume-Santero
Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique (GEOTOP), Université
du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis
Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carolyne Pickler
Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique (GEOTOP), Université
du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis
Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis
Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Centre pour l'étude et la simulation du climat à l'échelle régionale
(ESCER), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Jean-Claude Mareschal
Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique (GEOTOP), Université
du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, Hugo Beltrami, Stephan Gruber, Almudena García-García, and J. Fidel González-Rouco
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Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 413–428, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-413-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-413-2022, 2022
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Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, Almudena García-García, Hugo Beltrami, J. Fidel González-Rouco, and Elena García-Bustamante
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Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza, Jean-Claude Mareschal, and Hugo Beltrami
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Short summary
Within the framework of the PAGES NAm2k project, we estimated regional trends in the ground surface temperature change for the past 500 years in North America. The mean North American ground surface temperature history suggests a warming of 1.8 °C between preindustrial times and 2000. A regional analysis of mean temperature changes over the last 5 centuries shows that all regions experienced warming, but this warming displays large spatial variability and is more marked in high-latitude regions.
Within the framework of the PAGES NAm2k project, we estimated regional trends in the ground...
