Isolating the anthropogenic component of Arctic warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3569-3576

  Chylek, Petr ^a   Hengartner, Nicholas ^a   Lesins, Glen ^b   Klett, James D ^c   Humlum, Ole ^d   Wyatt, Marcia ^e   Dubey, Manvendra K ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PAR Associates   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropogenic; Arctic warming; climate change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC; ANTHROPOGENIC CAUSE; ANTHROPOGENIC COMPONENTS; ARCTIC SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC WARMING; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL MODELING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RADIATIVE FORCING; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84901084295     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060184     Document Type: Article

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