Constraining the temperature history of the past millennium using early instrumental observations

• Main Authors: BROHAN, P, ALLAN, Rob, FREEMAN, J. Eric, WHEELER, D., WILKINSON, Clive, WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Social History
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2650; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3907/viewcontent/0265691414545018.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The current assessment that twentieth-century global temperature change is unusual in the context of the last thousand years relies on estimates of temperature changes from natural proxies (tree-rings, ice-cores, etc.) and climate model simulations. Confidence in such estimates is limited by difficu...