Transient climate simulations with the HadGEM1 climate model: Causes of past warming and future climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2763-2782

  Stott, Peter A ^a   Jones, Gareth S ^b   Lowe, Jason A ^a   Thorne, Peter ^b   Durman, Chris ^b   Johns, Timothy C ^b   Thelen, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL FORCINGS; NEAR-SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 33646356573     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3731.1     Document Type: Article

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