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Tag Archives: PDO
Deeper Doo Doo for Dendrochronology
Indices of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are in close agreement for the period of the last seventy years. The NASA Multivariate Index and the Mantua Index only go back a hundred or so and they correlate very closely. These shorter … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography, Paleoclimate, Paleogeography
Tagged China, Dendrochronology, Hockey Stick, Limber Pine, NASA, pacific decadal oscillation, PDO
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528 years of PDO, the long skinny one.
Quite a bit lost in the upload but here is the complete Shen Index plotted on three graphs and cobbed together (Excel tops out at 255 per series). Most of the time the index has been … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Global Warming
Tagged global warming, PDO, Shen index
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And so goes PDO…
The first thing one notices is that this historical index shows the Pacific Oscillation to be far more medicentennial than decadal. This bears some further work for this wonderful index: Shen, C., et al. 2006. Pacific Decadal Oscillation Reconstruction. IGBP … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, pacific decadal oscillation, PDO, rainfall data
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