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Kinnard Arctic O18 Series

Kinnard et al 2011 report a highly hockey-stick shaped reconstruction of sea ice. (For a different perspective based on Holocene ocean sediments under the Ellesmere Island ice shelf, see the recent Antoniades et al (PNAS 2011). Kinnard et al use a regression-based statistical methodology that looks at first blush to be a sort of inverse […]

Kinnard and the D’Arrigo-Wilson Chronologies

Two interesting new proxy studies out recently, one with a meticulous archive, one without. Kinnard et al 2011 (Nature) here is a proxy reconstruction using 69 proxies to reconstruct Arctic sea ice. It contains a comprehensive archive: all proxies as used as archived; all code is archived. Three of the coauthors are Canadians, including David […]