Impact of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) on deriving anthropogenic warming rates from the instrumental temperature record

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 375-382

  Van Der Werf, G R ^a   Dolman, A J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EID: 84908609936     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-5-375-2014     Document Type: Article

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