Periodic oscillations in millennial global-mean temperature and their causes

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 4052-4057

  Qian, Wei Hong ^a   Lu, Bo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

decadal warm period; global mean temperature; long term trend; periodic oscillations; solar radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650199095     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-4204-2     Document Type: Article

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