Human contribution to the lengthening of the growing season during 1950-99

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5441-5454

  Christidis, Nikolaos ^a   Stott, Peter A ^a   Brown, Simon ^a   Karoly, David J ^b   Caesar, John ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC COMPONENT; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCINGS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DETECTION ANALYSIS; HUMAN CONTRIBUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DETECTION METHOD; EKMAN TRANSPORT; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 36349024681     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1568.1     Document Type: Article

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