Assessment of twentieth-century regional surface temperature trends using the GFDL CM2 coupled models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1624-1651

  Knutson, Thomas R ^a   Delworth, T L ^a   Dixon, K W ^a   Held, I M ^a   Lu, J ^a   Ramaswamy, V ^a   Schwarzkopf, M D ^a   Stenchikov, G ^b   Stouffer, R J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON BLACK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OZONE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 33644766606     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3709.1     Document Type: Article

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