Climate change attribution using empirical decomposition of climatic data

Open Atmospheric Science Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-86

  Loehle, Craig ^a   Scafetta, Nicola ^b  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Climate change; ENSO; LULC change; Solar activity; UHI effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 83855162517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874282301105010074     Document Type: Article

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