Global Surface Air Temperature Variations During the Twentieth Century: Part 1, Spatial, Temporal and Seasonal Details

The Holocene

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 165-179

  Jones, P D ^a   Briffa, K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

air temperature; climatic change; global warming; hemisphere; instrumental record; season; variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING 20TH CENTURY; INSTRUMENTAL RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0027040324     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369200200208     Document Type: Article

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