eprintid: 2362
rev_number: 9
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datestamp: 2014-11-10 13:49:31
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creators_name: Alessio, Silvia
creators_name: Vivaldo, Gianna
creators_name: Taricco, Carla
creators_name: Ghil, Michael
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creators_id: gianna.vivaldo@imtlucca.it
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title: Natural variability and anthropogenic effects in a Central Mediterranean core
ispublished: pub
subjects: QC
subjects: QE
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
abstract: We evaluate the contribution of natural variability to the modern decrease in foraminiferal δ18O by relying on a 2200-yr-long, high-resolution record of oxygen isotopic ratio from a Central Mediterranean sediment core. Pre-industrial values are used to train and test two sets of algorithms that are able to forecast the natural variability in δ18O over the last 150 yr. These algorithms are based on autoregressive models and neural networks, respectively; they are applied separately to each of the δ18O series' significant variability components, rather than to the complete series. The separate components are extracted by singular-spectrum analysis and have narrow-band spectral content, which reduces the forecast error. By comparing the sum of the predicted low-frequency components to its actual values during the Industrial Era, we deduce that the natural contribution to these components of the modern δ18O variation decreased gradually, until it reached roughly 40%, as early as the end of the 1970s.
date: 2012-04
publication: Climate of the Past 
volume: 8
number: 2
publisher: European Geosciences Union
pagerange: 831-839
id_number: doi:10.5194/cp-8-831-2012
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1814-9324
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-831-2012
citation:   Alessio, Silvia and Vivaldo, Gianna and Taricco, Carla and Ghil, Michael  Natural variability and anthropogenic effects in a Central Mediterranean core.  Climate of the Past , 8 (2).  pp. 831-839.  ISSN 1814-9324      (2012)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2362/1/Vivaldo_Clim.Past_2012.pdf