What is causing the variability in global mean land temperature?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Hoerling, Martin ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b   Eischeid, Jon ^a   Jha, Bhaskar ^c  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WYLE Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH'S CLIMATES; GREEN HOUSE GAS; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; NATURAL VARIABILITIES; NATURAL VARIATIONS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

EID: 60149090725     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035984     Document Type: Article

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