Projection of global mean surface air temperature changes in next 40 years: Uncertainties of climate models and an alternative approach

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1400-1406

  Fu, Cong Bin ^a,b   Qian, Cheng ^b   Wu, Zhao Hua ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMIP3 multi model; decadal prediction; global warming; multi decadal climate variability; the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CAST SHADOW; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL; MULTI-MODEL; NATURAL FACTORS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052271820     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4235-9     Document Type: Article

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