Comparison of surface and tropospheric temperature trends estimated from a 63-station radiosonde network, 1958-1998

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2761-2764

  Angell, James K ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; RADIOSONDES;

CLIMATE ZONES; HEMISPHERES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RADIOSONDE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033386544     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900375     Document Type: Article

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