Recent Arctic warming vertical structure contested

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7210, 2008, Pages

  Grant, A N ^a   Bronnimann S ^a   Haimberger, L ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 51649118294     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07257     Document Type: Note

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