Identifying external influences on global precipitation

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

Volumn 110, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 19301-19306

  Marvel, Kate ^a   Bonfils, Céline ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change detection; Climate modeling; Multimodel database

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; MULTIMODEL DATABASE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84888364834     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314382110     Document Type: Article

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