TITLE:
The Use of Greenhouse Gases as Climate Proxy Data in Interpreting Climatic Variability
AUTHORS:
Oluseyi Enitan Ogunsola, Ezekiel Oluyemi Oladiran
KEYWORDS:
Greenhouse Gases; Proxy Data; Global Warming
JOURNAL NAME:
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences,
Vol.3 No.1,
January
30,
2013
ABSTRACT: Greenhouse gas data were utilized as proxy data in interpreting climate variability. These greenhouse gases were related to temperature records using standard deviation (SD) as the transfer function based on observed correlations between them and global warming records. The annual SD used as warming index for the concentrations of these greenhouse gases for the period 1996 to 2005 at the various stations considered showed good correlation with 1998 as the warmest for these stations.