The role of natural climatic variation in perturbing the observed global mean temperature trend

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 509-521

  Hunt, B G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 79551586686     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0799-x     Document Type: Article

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