Prospects for decadal climate prediction

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 627-635

  Keenlyside, Noel S ^a   Ba, Jin ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79956272355     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.69     Document Type: Article

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