Atmospheric science: Radiosonde daytime biases and late-20th century warming

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5740, 2005, Pages 1556-1559

  Sherwood, Steven C ^a   Lanzante, John R ^b   Meyer, Cathryn L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; SOLAR HEATING; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; RADIOSONDE DAYTIME BIASES; TROPICAL STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RADIOSONDE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 24644515835     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115640     Document Type: Article

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