Consistency of observed near surface temperature trends with climate change projections over the Mediterranean region

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 1695-1702

  Barkhordarian, Armineh ^a   Bhend, Jonas ^a,b   von Storch, Hans ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c KlimaCampus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection; Mediterranean; Near surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WINTER;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84860344274     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1060-y     Document Type: Article

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