Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-721-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-721-2021
Technical note
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29 Mar 2021
Technical note |  | 29 Mar 2021

Technical note: Considerations on using uncertain proxies in the analogue method for spatiotemporal reconstructions of millennial-scale climate

Oliver Bothe and Eduardo Zorita

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The similarity between indirect observations of past climates and information from climate simulations can increase our understanding of past climates. The further we look back, the more uncertain our indirect observations become. Here, we discuss the technical background for such a similarity-based approach to reconstruct past climates for up to the last 15 000 years. We highlight the potential and the problems.
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