Uncertainty estimation of the global temperature trends for multiple radiosondes, reanalyses, and CMIP3/IPCC climate model simulations

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 505-518

  Xu, Jianjun ^a,b   Powell Jr , Alfred M ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CENTRAL LUZON; CHIAPAS; EL CHICHON; LUZON; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MOUNT PINATUBO; PHILIPPINES; ZAMBALES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 84860482565     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0548-z     Document Type: Article

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