Probable causes of late twentieth century tropospheric temperature trends

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 573-591

  Thorne, P W ^a,b   Jones, P D ^a   Tett, S F B ^b   Allen, M R ^c   Parker, D E ^b   Stott, P A ^b   Jones, G S ^b   Osborn, T J ^a   Davies, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 0347900500     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0353-1     Document Type: Article

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