Human and natural influences on the changing thermal structure of the atmosphere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 17235-17240

  Santer, Benjamin D ^a   Painter, Jeffrey F ^a   Bonfils, Céline ^a   Mears, Carl A ^b   Solomon, Susan ^c   Wigley, Tom M L ^d,e   Gleckler, Peter J ^a   Schmidt, Gavin A ^f   Doutriaux, Charles ^a   Gillett, Nathan P ^g   Taylor, Karl E ^a   Thorne, Peter W ^h   Wentz, Frank J ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^h NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change detection; Climate modeling

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OZONE DEPLETION; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLCANO;

CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATE MODELING;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84886405986     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305332110     Document Type: Article

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