Drivers of decadal hiatus periods in the 20th and 21st centuries

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5978-5986

  Maher, Nicola ^a,b   Gupta, Alexander Sen ^a,b   England, Matthew H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; VOLCANOES;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; GLOBAL SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; SIMULATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84905999508     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060527     Document Type: Review

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