Investigating the possibility of a human component in various pacific decadal oscillation indices

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1457-1468

  Bonfils, Céline ^a   Santer, Benjamin D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate simulations; Detection of regional climate change; Mode of decadal variability; Pacific decadal oscillation; Sea surface temperatures; Trend

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80053296906     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0920-1     Document Type: Article

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