Communicating global climate change using simple indices: An update

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 989-999

  Drost, Frank ^a   Karoly, David ^a   Braganza, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate indices; Climate model simulations; CMIP3 data; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INDEX METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84864382814     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1227-6     Document Type: Article

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