Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6735, 1999, Pages 452-455

  Shindell, Drew T ^a,b   Miller, Ron L ^b,c   Schmidt, Gavin A ^a,b   Pandolfo, Lionel ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^c University of British Columbia ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLD CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WINTER;

EID: 0033519653     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20905     Document Type: Article

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