Projections of when temperature change will exceed 2°C above pre-industrial levels

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 407-412

  Joshi, Manoj ^a   Hawkins, Ed ^a   Sutton, Rowan ^a   Lowe, Jason ^b   Frame, David ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

CANADA; EURASIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84855576422     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1261     Document Type: Review

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