Estimation of global temperature trends: What's important and what isn't

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-69

  Jones, Phil D ^a   Wigley, T M L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77952632512     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9836-3     Document Type: Article

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