Application of regularised optimal fingerprinting to attribution. Part II: Application to global near-surface temperature

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 2837-2853

  Ribes, Aurélien ^a   Terray, Laurent ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Attribution; Climate change; Detection; Global temperature; Optimal fingerprints

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DETECTION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888073971     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1736-6     Document Type: Article

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