Evidence for multiple drivers of North Atlantic multi-decadal climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Terray, Laurent ^a  

^a CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

20TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; FORCED RESPONSE; FORCINGS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MULTI-MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SPATIAL RESPONSE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867537293     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053046     Document Type: Article

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