Attribution of Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Variability

World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-29

  Wallace, John M ^a   Deser, Clara ^b   Smoliak, Brian V ^a   Phillips, Adam S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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