Changes in the interannual surface air temperature variability in the northern hemisphere in response to global warming

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 721-737

  Sakai, Daisaku ^a   Itoh, Hisanori ^a   Yukimoto, Seiji ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 70349504565     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87.721     Document Type: Article

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