'Skinning a cat': Alternative models of representing temperature trends

Climatic Change

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 415-426

  Mills, Terence C ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 77955056461     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9801-1     Document Type: Article

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