Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-629-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-629-2017
Research article
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08 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 08 Jun 2017

Pseudo-proxy tests of the analogue method to reconstruct spatially resolved global temperature during the Common Era

Juan José Gómez-Navarro, Eduardo Zorita, Christoph C. Raible, and Raphael Neukom

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Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates: The HadCRUT4 data set (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4) C. P. Morice, J. J. Kennedy, N. A. Rayner, and P. D. Jones https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017187

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This contribution aims at assessing to what extent the analogue method, a classic technique used in other branches of meteorology and climatology, can be used to perform gridded reconstructions of annual temperature based on the limited information from available but un-calibrated proxies spread across different locations of the world. We conclude that it is indeed possible, albeit with certain limitations that render the method comparable to more classic techniques.