How would global-mean temperature change in the 21st century?

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1963-1967

  Qian, Wei Hong ^a   Lu, Bo ^a   Zhu, Cong Wen ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Decadal warm flat; Global mean temperature; Long term trend; Periodic oscillation; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954436415     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-3258-5     Document Type: Article

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