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Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions

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This chapter provides a short overview of spatial climate field reconstructions (CFR), the technique of employing different statistical methods to reconstruct climate (such as temperature, precipitation, drought, and air pressure) over large geographical areas based on data from climate proxies. CFR methods have been applied both to filling spatial gaps in early instrumental climate datasets and to the problem of reconstructing past climate patterns from natural and documentary-based proxy data.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Allan et al., 2011.

  2. 2.

    van Loon and Rogers, 1978.

  3. 3.

    Briffa et al., 2002; Mann et al., 2008; Tingley and Huybers, 2010a, 2010b; Smerdon, 2012; Dannenberg and Wise, 2013; Werner et al., 2013, 2018; Guillot et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2014.

  4. 4.

    Graham et al., 2011; Franke et al., 2011.

  5. 5.

    Schneider, 2001; Küttel et al., 2010; Luterbacher et al., 2002, 2004, 2016; Mann et al., 2008; Riedwyl et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2014; Xoplaki et al., 2005; Neukom et al., 2011; Cook et al., 2013, 2015; Pauling et al., 2006; Shi et al., 2015, 2017; Anchukaitis et al., 2017; Werner et al., 2018.

  6. 6.

    Luterbacher et al., 2016.

  7. 7.

    E.g. Briffa et al., 2002.

  8. 8.

    Wahl et al., 2014.

  9. 9.

    Anchukaitis et al., 2010.

  10. 10.

    Fischer et al., 2007; Gao and Gao, 2017; Rao et al., 2017.

  11. 11.

    Jansen et al., 2007.

  12. 12.

    Werner et al., 2013; Smerdon et al., 2016, 2017.

  13. 13.

    Wang et al., 2014.

  14. 14.

    Schmidt et al., 2011; PAGES 2k-PMIP3 group, 2015.

  15. 15.

    Mann et al., 2005; Smerdon, 2012; Wahl and Smerdon, 2012; Wahl et al., 2012; Werner et al., 2013; Gomez-Navarro et al., 2015; Steiger and Smerdon, 2017.

  16. 16.

    Ammann and Wahl, 2007; Tingley and Huybers, 2010b; Smerdon et al., 2010, 2011, 2016; Dannenberg and Wise, 2013; Werner et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2014.

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  1. Department of Geography, Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Jürg Luterbacher

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  3. Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany

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Luterbacher, J., Zorita, E. (2018). Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions. In: White, S., Pfister, C., Mauelshagen, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5_12

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