Does a global temperature exist?

Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-27

  Essex, Christopher ^a   McKitrick, Ross ^b   Andresen, Bjarne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GLOBAL TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL RULES; TEMPERATURE FIELD;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

COMPUTATION THEORY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33847273090     PISSN: 03400204     EISSN: 14374358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JNETDY.2007.001     Document Type: Article

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