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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019MS001630
Keywords
paleoclimate; 3-D variational; correlation; pollen reconstruction; condition number; resolution matrix
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- UK Natural Environment Research Programme (NERC) scholarship as part of the SCENARIO Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Reading
- ERC [694481]
- ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [787203 REALM]
- NERC National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)
- NERC [nceo020004] Funding Source: UKRI
- European Research Council (ERC) [694481] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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We describe a method for reconstructing spatially explicit maps of seasonal paleoclimate variables from site-based reconstructions. Using a 3-D-Variational technique, the method finds the best statistically unbiased, and spatially continuous, estimate of the paleoclimate anomalies through combining the site-based reconstructions and a prior estimate of the paleoclimate state. By assuming a set of correlations in the error of the prior, the resulting climate is smoothed both from month to month and from grid cell to grid cell. The amount of smoothing can be controlled through the choice of two length-scale values. The method is applied to a set of reconstructions of the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 21,000 years ago) for southern Europe derived from pollen data with a prior derived from results from the third phase of the Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project. We demonstrate how to choose suitable values for the smoothing length scales for the data sets used in the reconstruction.
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