Seasonal aspects of the recent pause in surface warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 911-916

  Trenberth, Kevin E ^a   Fasullo, John T ^a   Branstator, Grant ^a   Phillips, Adam S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIATUS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE MODELING;

EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84916208903     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2341     Document Type: Article

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