Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling

Nature

Volumn 501, Issue 7467, 2013, Pages 403-407

  Kosaka, Yu ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HIATUS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; SURFACE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WINTER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DROUGHT; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; WARMING; WINTER;

CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84884410748     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12534     Document Type: Article

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