How will Earth's surface temperature change in future decades?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Lean, Judith L ^a   Rind, David H ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLCANOES;

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EARTH'S SURFACE; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PROJECTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WARMING;

EID: 70350007926     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038932     Document Type: Article

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