Sensitivity of the attribution of near surface temperature warming to the choice of observational dataset

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Jones, G S ^a   Stott, P A ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

20TH CENTURY; DATA SETS; GLOBAL SCALE; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUB-REGIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 81155138229     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049324     Document Type: Article

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