Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 779-787

  Mann, Michael E ^a   Bradley, Raymond S ^a   Hughes, Malcolm K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE TEMEPRATURE;

ARTICLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANO;

EID: 0032560125     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33859     Document Type: Article

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