Reconstructing Late Holocene North Atlantic atmospheric circulation changes using functional paleoclimate networks

Franke, Jasper G.; Werner, Johannes P.; Donner, Reik V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1593-2017

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| 17 Nov 2017

Reconstructing Late Holocene North Atlantic atmospheric circulation changes using functional paleoclimate networks

Jasper G. Franke, Johannes P. Werner, and Reik V. Donner

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1593-2017-supplement

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Reconstructing Late Holocene North Atlantic atmospheric circulation changes using functional paleoclimate networks, results J. G. Franke, J. P. Werner, and R. V. Donner https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875881

Short summary

We apply evolving functional network analysis, a tool for studying temporal changes of the spatial co-variability structure, to a set of Late Holocene paleoclimate proxy records covering the last two millennia. The emerging patterns obtained by our analysis are related to long-term changes in the dominant mode of atmospheric circulation in the region, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). We obtain a qualitative reconstruction of the NAO long-term variability over the entire Common Era.