Attributing the increase in Northern Hemisphere hot summers since the late 20th century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5192-5199

  Kamae, Youichi ^a   Shiogama, Hideo ^a   Watanabe, Masahiro ^b   Kimoto, Masahide ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AMO; climate hiatus; hot summers; PDO

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

AMO; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE HIATUS; GLOBAL SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; HOT SUMMERS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; PDO;

EARTH SCIENCES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SIMULATION; SUMMER; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84906352243     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061062     Document Type: Article

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