On the possible interaction between internal climate variability and forced climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2962-2970

  Lu, Jianhua ^a   Hu, Aixue ^b   Zeng, Zhen ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV); climate variability; forced climate change; global warming hiatus; Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HIATUS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION;

EID: 84900823780     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059908     Document Type: Article

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