Articles | Volume 12, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2181-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2181-2016
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14 Dec 2016
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North American regional climate reconstruction from ground surface temperature histories

Fernando Jaume-Santero, Carolyne Pickler, Hugo Beltrami, and Jean-Claude Mareschal

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North American borehole temperature profiles suitable for climate studies F. Jaume-Santero, H. Beltrami, and J.-C. Mareschal https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2062140

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Within the framework of the PAGES NAm2k project, we estimated regional trends in the ground surface temperature change for the past 500 years in North America. The mean North American ground surface temperature history suggests a warming of 1.8 °C between preindustrial times and 2000. A regional analysis of mean temperature changes over the last 5 centuries shows that all regions experienced warming, but this warming displays large spatial variability and is more marked in high-latitude regions.