Difficulties in obtaining reliable temperature trends: reconciling the surface and satellite microwave sounding unit records

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 945-967

  Hurrell, James W ^a   Trenberth, Kevin E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE TREND;

EID: 0031659358     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0945:DIORTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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