Toward regional-scale climate change detection

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 793-797

  Zwiers, Francis W ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SULFATE;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141788231     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0793:TRSCCD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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