Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 569-572

  Tett, Simon F B ^a   Stott, Peter A ^a   Allen, Myles R ^b   Ingram, William J ^a   Mitchell, John F B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

SURFACE LAYER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLCANIC ASH;

EID: 0033542448     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21164     Document Type: Article

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