Estimates of the North Atlantic Oscillation back to 1692 using a Paris–London westerly index

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Cornes, Richard C., Jones, Philip D., Briffa, Keith R., Osborn, Timothy J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Folland; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3416; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjoc.3416; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.3416

Abstract A westerly index for Europe is developed back to 1692 using newly recovered and corrected Mean Sea‐level Pressure (MSLP) data from London and Paris. The index is compared against various instrumental and proxy indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). In the winter, the Paris‐London...