Revisiting the controversial issue of tropical tropospheric temperature trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2801-2806

  Mitchell, D M ^a   Thorne, P W ^b   Stott, P A ^c   Gray, L J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amplification factors; CMIP5; horizontal resolution; observational uncertainty; radiosonde; tropical temperature trends

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; CMIP5; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; OBSERVATIONAL UNCERTAINTY; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

AMPLIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELS; OZONE LAYER; RADIOSONDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; OZONE; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84879944497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50465     Document Type: Article

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