Evaluating global climate responses to different forcings using simple indices

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Drost, Frank ^a   Karoly, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE GASES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FORCINGS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; MODEL DATA; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HISTORICAL RECORD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865620054     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052667     Document Type: Article

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