Research papers: Proxy indices

(Please send all additions to the following list to David W. J. Thompson. Thanks to Juerg Luterbacher from the University of Bern, Switzerland for assistance in compiling these references.)

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Andrews, J.T., G. Helgadottir, A. Geirsdottir, and A.E. Jennings, 2001: Multicentury-scale records of carbonate (hydrographic ?) variability on the northern Iceland margin over the last 5000 years. Quarternary Res., 56, 199-206.
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Appenzeller, C., T.F. Stocker, M. Anklin, 1998: North Atlantic oscillation dynamics recorded in Greenland ice cores Science, 282, 446-449.
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Appenzeller, C., J. Schwander, S. Sommer, and T. F. Stocker, 1998: The North Atlantic oscillation and its imprint on precipitation and ice accumulation in Greenland. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1939-1942.
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Barlow, L.K., 2001: The time period AD 1400-1980 in central Greenland ice cores in relation to the North Atlantic sector. Climatic Change, 48, 101-119.
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Barlow, L.K., J. D. Rogers, M.C. Serreze, and R.G Barry, 1997: Aspects of climate variability in the North Atlantic sector: discussion and relation to the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 high-resolution isotopic signal. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 26333-26344.
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Boberg, F., and H. Lundstedt, 2002: Solar wind variations related to fluctuations of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1718-1721.
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Box, J.E., 2002: Survey of Greenland instrumental temperature records: 1873-2001. Int. J. Climatol, 22, 1829-1847.
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Chapron, E., M. Desmet, T. De Putter, M.F. Loutre, C. Beck, and J.F. Deconinck, 2002: Climatic variability in the northwestern Alps, France, as evidenced by 600 years of terrigenous sedimentation in Lake Le Bourget. HOLOCENE, 12, 177-185.
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Cook, E.R., R. D'Arrigo, and K. Briffa, 1998: A reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation using tree-ring chronologies from North America and Europe The Holocene, 8, 9-17.
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Cook, E. R., D'Arrigo, R. and Mann, M., 2002. A well-verified, multi-proxy reconstruction of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation Index since AD 1400, J. Climate, 15, 1754-1764.
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Cullen, H.M., R.D. D'Arrigo, E.R. Cook, et al., 2001: Multiproxy reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Paleoceanography, 16, 27-39.
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Darby, D.A., J.F. Bischof, 2004: A Holocene record of changing Arctic Ocean ice drift analgous to the effects of the Arctic Oscillation. Paleoceanography, 19, doi:10.1029/2003PA000961.
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D'Arrigo, R., B. Buckley, S. Kaplan, and J. Woollett, 2003: Interannual to multidecadal modes of Labrador climate variability inferred from tree rings. Clim. Dynam., 20, 219-228.
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D'Arrigo, R. D., E. R. Cook, M. E. Mann, and G. C. Jacoby, 2003: Tree-ring reconstructions of temperature and sea-level pressure variability associated with the warm-season Arctic Oscillation since AD 1650. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1549, doi:10.1029/2003GL017250
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Felis, T., G. Lohmann, H. Kuhnert, S.J. lorenz, D. Scholz, J. Patzold, S.A. Al-Rouan, and S.M. Al-Moghrabi, 2004: Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature, 429, 164-168.
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Felis, T., J. Patzold, Y. Loya, M. Fine, A.H. Nawar, and G. Wefer, 2000: A coral oxygen isotope record from the Northern Red Sea documenting NAO, ENSO, and North Pacific teleconnections on Middle East climate variability since the year 1750. Paleoceanography, 15, 679-694.
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Garcia, R., L. Gimeno, E. Hernandez, R. Prieto, and P. Ribera, 2000: Reconstructing the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries from historical sources. Clim. Res., 14, 147-151.
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Garcia, R.R, H.F. Daz, R. Garca Herrera, J. Eischeid, M. del Rosario Prieto, E. Hernndez, L. Gimeno, F.R. Durn, and A.M. Bascary, 2001: Atmospheric Circulation Changes in the Tropical Pacific Inferred from the Voyages of the Manila Galleons in the SixteenthEighteenth Centuries. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 82, 24352456. (see http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/garcia2001/garcia2001.html for explanations and data)
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Glueck, M. F. and C. W. Stockton, 2001: Reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation, 1429-1983. Int. J. Climatol., 21, 1453-1465. (See here for explanations and data)
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Goodwin, I.D., T.D. van Ommen, M.A.J. Curran, and P.A. Mayewski, 2004: Mid Latitude Winter Climate Variability in the Southern Indian and South-West Pacific Regions Since 1300 AD. Clim. Dynam., 22(8), 783, doi:10.1007/S00382-004-0403-3.
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Gordon, G.A., J.M. Lough, H.C. Fritz, and P.M. Kelly, 1985: Comparison of sea level pressure reconstructions from Western North American tree rings with proxy record of winter severity in Japan. J. Appl. Meteor., 24, 1219-1224.
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Grove, A.T., 2001: The "Little Ice Age" and its geomorphological consequences in Mediterranean Europe. Climatic Change, 48, 121-136.
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Hall, A., A. Clement, D.W.J. Thompson, A. Broccoli, and C. Jackson, 2005: The importance of atmospheric dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere wintertime climate response to changes in the Earth's orbit. J. Climate, 18, 1315-1325.
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Hall, A., and R.J. Stouffer, 2001: An abrupt climate event in a coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation without external forcing. NATURE, 409, 171-174.
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Haug, G.H., K.A. Hughen, D.M. Sigman, L.C. Peterson, and U. Rohl, 2001: Southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone through the Holocene. Science, 293, 1304-1308.
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Hughen, K.A., J.T. Overpeck, L.C. Peterson, and S. Trumbore, 1996: Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Nature, 380, 51-54.
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Jacobeit, J., H. Wanner, J. Luterbacher, C. Beck, A. Philipp. and K. Sturm, 2003: Atmospheric circulation variability in the North-Atlantic-European area since the mid-seventeenth century. Clim. Dyn. 20(4), 431.
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Jacobeit, J., P. Jonsson, L. Barring, C. Beck, and M. Ekstrom, 2001: Zonal indices for Europe 1780-1995 and running correlations with temperature. Clim. Change, 48, 219-241.
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Jevrejeva, S., 2001: Severity of winter seasons in the northern Baltic Sea between 1529 and 1990: reconstruction and analysis. Climate Res., 17, 55-62.
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Jevrejeva, S., 2001: Singular Spectrum Analysis of Baltic Sea ice conditions and large- scale atmospheric patterns since 1708. Geophys. Res. Letters, in press.
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Jones, J.M., and M. Widmann, 2003: Instrument and Tree-Ring-Based Estimates of the Antarctic Oscillation. J. Climate, 16(21), 3511-3524.
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Jones, P. D., and 20 coauthors, 1999. Monthly Mean Pressure reconstruction for Europe 1780 1995. Int. J. Climatol., 19, 347-364.
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Jones, P. D., T. Jonsson, and D. Wheeler, 1997: Extension to the North Atlantic Oscillation using early instrumental pressure observations from Gibraltar and south-west Iceland Int'l. J. Climatology, 17, 1433-1450.
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Jones, P. D., T.J. Osborn and K.R. Briffa, 2001: The evolution of climate over the last Millenium. Science, 292, 662-667.
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Jones, P.D., T.M. Wigley, and K.R. Briffa, 1987: Monthly mean pressure reconstruction for Europe (back to 1780) and North-America (back to 1858). DOE Technical Report No. TR37, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Washington D.C., 99 pp.
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Keigwin, L.D., 1996: The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm period in the Sargasso Sea. Science, 274, 1504-1508.
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Kreutz, K.J., P.A. Mayewski, L.D. Meeker, M.S. Twickler, S.I. Whitlow, and I.I. Pittalwala, 1997: Bipolar changes in atmospheric circulation during the Little Ice Age. Science, 277, 1294-1296.
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Kunzendorf, H., and B. Larsen, 2002: A 200-300 year cyclicity in sediment deposition in the Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea, as deduced from geochemical evidence. Appl. Geochem., 17, 29-38.
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Lamy, F., H.W. Arz, G.C. Bond, A. Bahr, and J. Patzold, 2006: Multicentennial-scale hydrological changes in the Black Sea and northern Red Sea during the Holocene and the Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation. Paleoceanography, 21, PA1008, doi:10.1029/2005PA001184.
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Luterbacher, J. and 33 coauthors, 2000: Reconstruction of monthly mean sea level pressure over Europe for the Late Maunder Minimum period (1675-1715). Int. J. Climatol., 20, 1049-1066.
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Luterbacher, J., C. Schmutz, D. Gyalistras, E. Xoplaki, and H. Wanner, 1999: Reconstruction of monthly NAO and EU indices back to AD 1675 Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2745-2748.
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Luterbacher, J. and E. Xoplaki, 2002: 500-year Winter Temperature and Precipitation Variability over the Mediterranean area and its Connection to the Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation. In Bolle, H.-J. (Ed): Mediterranean Climate Variability and Trends. Springer Verlag, in press.
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Luterbacher, J., E. Xoplaki, D. Dietrich, P.D. Jones, T.D. Davies, D. Portis, J.F. Gonzalez-Rouco, H. von Storch, D. Gyalistras, C. Casty and H. Wanner, 2002: Extending North Atlantic Oscillation Reconstructions Back to 1500. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 2, 114-124, doi:10.1006/asle.2001.0044.
(see http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/luterbacher2002b/luterbacher2002b.html for explanations and data)
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Luterbacher, J., E. Xoplaki, D. Dietrich, R. Rickli, J. Jacobeit, C. Beck, D. Gyalistras, C. Schmutz and H. Wanner, 2002: Reconstruction of sea level pressure fields over the Eastern North Atlantic and Europe back to 1500. Clim. Dynam., 18, 545-561, doi:10.1007/s00382-001-0196-6.
(see http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/luterbacher2002/luterbacher2002.html for explanations and data)
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Luterbacher, J., R. Rickli, E. Xoplaki, C. Tinguely, C. Beck, C. Pfister, and H. Wanner, 2001: The Late Maunder Minimum (1675-1715) A Key Period for Studying Decadal Scale Climatic Change in Europe. Clim. Change, 49, 441-462.
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MacDonald, G.M., A.A. Velichko, C.V. Kremenetski, et al., 2000: Holocene treeline history and climate change across northern Eurasia. Quaternary Res., 53, 302-311. Electronic version of manuscript available through this link.

MacDonald, G., B. Felzer, B. Finney, and S.L. Forman, 2000: Lake sediment records of Holocene Arctic Paleohydrology. J. Paleo., 24, 1-14. Electronic version of manuscript available through this link.

Meeker, L.D. and P.A. Mayewski, 2002: A 1400-year high-resolution record of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic and Asia. The Holocene, 12, 257-266.
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Mikalsen, G., H.P. Sejrup, and I. Aarseth, 2001: Late-Holocene changes in ocean circulation and climate: foraminiferal and isotopic evidence from Sulafjord, western Norway. HOLOCENE, 11, 437-446.
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Munoz, A., J. Ojeda, and B. Sanchex-Valverde, 2002: Sunspot-like and ENSO/NAO-like periodicities in lacustrine laminated sediments of the Pliocene Villarroya Basin (La Rioja, Spain). J. Paleolimnol., 27, 453-463.
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O'Sullivan, P.E., R. Moyeed, M.C. Cooper, and M.J. Nicholson, 2002: Comparison between instrumental, observational and high resolution proxy sedimentary records of Late Holocene climatic change - a discussion of possibilities. Quartern. Int., 88, 27-44.
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Proctor, C.J., A. Baker, and W. L. Barnes, 2002: A three thousand year record of North Atlantic Climate. Climate Dyn., 19, 449-454.
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Proctor, C.J., A. Baker, W. L. Barnes, and M. A. Gilmour, 2000: A thousand year speleothem proxy record of North Atlantic climate from Scotland Climate Dyn., 16, 815-820.
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Rimbu, N., G. Lohmann, J.H. Kim, H.W. Arz, and R. Schneider, 2003: Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation signature in Holocene sea surface temperature trends as obtained from alkenone data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(6), 1280, doi:10.1029/2002GL016570.
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Rimbu, N., G. Lohmann, T. Felis, and J. Patzold,, 2001: Arctic Oscillation signature in a Red Sea coral. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2959-2962.
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Rodrigo, F.S., D. Pozo-Vazquez, M.J. Esteban-Parra, and Y. Castro-Diez, 2000: A reconstruction of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation Index back to AD 1501 using documentary data in southern Spain. J. Geophys. Res., 106,14,805-14,818.
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Schmutz, C., D. Gyalistras, J. Luterbacher, H. Wanner, 2001: Reconstruction of monthly 700, 500, and 300 hPa geopotential height fields in the European and Eastern North Atlantic region for the period 1901-1947. Climate Res., 18, 181-193.
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Schmutz, C., J. Luterbacher, D. Gyalistras, E. Xoplaki, and H. Wanner, 2000: Can we trust proxy-based NAO index reconstructions Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1135-1138.
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Schneider, D.P., E.J. Steig, T. van Ommen, C. Bitz, D. Dixon, P.A. Mayewski, and J. Jones, 2006: Antarctic temperatures over the past two centuries from ice cores. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L16707, doi:10.129/2006GL027057.
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Seppa, H., H.J.B. Birks, 2002: Holocene climate reconstructions from the fennoscandian tree-line area based on pollen data from Toskaijavri. Quarternary Research, 57, 191-199.
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Sewall, J.O., and L.C. Sloan, 2001: Equable Paleogene climates: The result of a stable, positive Arctic Oscillation? Geophys.Res. Lett., 28, 3693-3695.
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Slonosky, V.C., P.D. Jones, and T.D. Davies, 2000: Variability of the surface atmospheric circulation over Europe, 1774-1995. Int. J. Climatol. 20, 1875-1897.
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Slonosky, V.C., P.D. Jones, and T.D. Davies, 2001: Instrumental pressure observation from the 17th and 18th centuries: London and Paris. Int. J. Climatol. 21, 285-298.
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Slonosky, V. C., P.D. Jones, and T.D. Davies, 2001: Atmospheric circulation and surface temperature in Europe from the 18th century to 1995. Int. J. Climatol., 21, 63-75.
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Souriau, A. and P. Yiou, 2001: Grape harvest dates for checking NAO paleoreconstructions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 , 3895-3898.
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Stockton, C. W., and M. F. Glueck, 1999: Long-term variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Preprint of the Am. Met. Soc. 10th Symposium on Global Change Studies, Dallas Tx

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Teranes, J.L., and J.A. McKenzie, 2001: Lacustrine oxygen isotope record of 20(th)-century climate change in central Europe: evaluation of climatic controls on oxygen isotopes in precipitation. J. Paleolimnol., 26, 131-146.
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Wanner, H., Pfister, C., Brazdil, R., Frich, P., Frydendahl, K., Jnsson, T., Kington, J., Rosenrn, S. and Wishman, E., 1995. Wintertime European circulation patterns during the Late Maunder Minimum cooling period (1675-1704). Theor. Appl. Climatol., 51, 167-175.
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Wanner, H., S. Bronnimann, C. Casty, D. Gyalistras, et al., 2001: North Atlantic Oscillation - Concepts and Studies. Surv. Geophys., 22, 321-382.
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Welker, J.M., S. Rayback, and G.H.R. Henry, 2005: Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillation phase changes are recorded in the isotopes (δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C) of Cassiope tetragona plants. Glob. Chang. Biol., 11, 997-1002.
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White, J.W.C., L.K. Barlow, D. Fisher, P. Grootes, J. Jouzel, S.J. Johnson, M. Stuiver, and H. Clausen, 1997: The climate signal in the stable isotopes of snow from Summit, Greenland: results of comparisons with modern climate observations. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 26425-26439.
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White, J.W.C., D. Gorodetzky, E.R. Cook, and L.K. Barlow, 1996: Frequency analysis of an annually resolved, 700 year paleoclimate record from the GISP2 ice core, In: R.S. Bradley et al. (eds), Climate Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the last 2000 years, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 193-213.
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Xoplaki, E., Maheras, P. and Luterbacher, J., 2001: Variability of climate in meridional Balkans during the periods 1675-1715 and 1780-1830 and its impact on human life. Clim. Change, 48, 581-614.
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Zhou, W.J., M.J. Head, Z.S. An, et al., 2001: Terrestrial evidence for a spatial structure of tropical-polar interconnections during the Younger Dryas episode. Earth Planet. Sc. Lett., 191, 231-239.
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Zhou, W.J., Z.K. Wu, A.J.T. Jull, G. Burr, D.D. Donahoue, B.S. Li, and J. Head, 2001: Environmental and climatic change as recorded in geological sediments from the arid to semi-arid zone of China. RADIOCARBON, 43, 619-627. Electronic version of abstract available through this link.

Zorita, E., and F.J. Gonzalez-Rouco, 2002: Are temperature-sensitive proxies adequate for North Atlantic Oscillation reconstructions? Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1703-1706.
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