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Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-31-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-31-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Research article
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15 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 15 Jan 2016

Inferring climate variability from nonlinear proxies: application to palaeo-ENSO studies

J. Emile-Geay and M. Tingley

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Ignoring nonlinearity in palaeoclimate records (e.g. continental run-off proxies) runs the risk of severely overstating changes in climate variability. Even with the correct model and parameters, some information is irretrievably lost by such proxies. However, we find that a simple empirical transform can do much to improve the situation, and makes them amenable to classical analyses. Doing so on two palaeo-ENSO records markedly changes some of the quantitative inferences made from such records.
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