How unusual is the recent series of warm years?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Zorita, E ^a   Stocker, T F ^b   Von Storch, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; LONG MEMORIES; MEAN TEMPERATURES; NATURAL VARIATIONS; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL DETECTIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EID: 61349176552     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036228     Document Type: Article

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