Upper-tropospheric moistening in response to anthropogenic warming

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

Volumn 111, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 11636-11641

  Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Soden, Brian ^a   Sohn, B J ^b   Shi, Lei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Detection; Long term monitoring

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

ATTRIBUTION; DETECTION; LONG-TERM MONITORING;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STEAM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905988375     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409659111     Document Type: Article

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