Twentieth-century surface air temperature over China and the globe simulated by coupled climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5843-5858

  Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Yu, Rucong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; HISTORICAL NATURAL FORCING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; WINTERTIME WARMING TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33845694309     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3952.1     Document Type: Article

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