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Gladstone et al. 2005
Gladstone, R.M., Ross, I., Valdes, P.J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Braconnot, P., Brewer, S., Kageyama, M., Kitoh, A., Legrande, A., Marti, O., Ohgaito, R., Otto-Bliesner, B., Peltier, W.R. and Vettoretti, G. (2005). Mid-Holocene NAO: A PMIP2 model intercomparison. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL023596. issn: 0094-8276.

The mid-Holocene (6000 years before present) North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) from nine models in the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project Phase 2 is studied, primarily through principal component analysis of winter time North Atlantic sea level pressure (SLP). Modeled mid-Holocene NAO and mean SLP show small changes compared to pre-industrial control runs, with a shift in mean state towards a more positive NAO regime for three of the models. Modeled NAO variability shows little change, with a small increase for some models in the fraction of time spent in the NAO-negative phase during the mid-Holocene. Proxy based reconstructions of the NAO indicate a more positive NAO regime compared to present day during the mid- Holocene. We hypothesise that there was a small NAO+ like shift in mean state during the mid-Holocene.

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Keywords
Global Change, Regional climate change, Global Change, Global climate models (3337, 4928), Global Change, Climate variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes, Paleoclimatology (0473, 4900), Geographic Location, Atlantic Ocean
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Geophysical Research Letters
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