Influence of choice of time period on global surface temperature trend estimates

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1485-1491

  Liebmann, Brant ^a   Dole, Randall M ^b   Jones, Charles ^c   Bladé, Ileana ^d   Allured, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LINEAR TEMPERATURE; TIME VARYING; TIME-PERIODS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 78650431670     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS3030.1     Document Type: Article

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