Arctic warming aloft is data set dependent

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7210, 2008, Pages

  Bitz, Cecilia M ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 51649088894     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07258     Document Type: Note

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