Multidecadal climate variability and the "warming hole" in north america: Results from CMIP5 twentieth- and twenty-first-century climate simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3511-3527

  Kumar, Sanjiv ^a   Kinter, James ^a,b   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^b   Pan, Zaitao ^c   Adams, Jennifer ^a  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EMISSION SCENARIO; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; NON-PARAMETRIC TRENDS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE;

HOLE CONCENTRATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878993903     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00535.1     Document Type: Article

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