The hiatus and accelerated warming decades in CMIP5 simulations

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1316-1330

  Song, Yi ^a,b   Yu, Yongqiang ^a   Lin, Pengfei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

CMIP5; decadal variability; global warming; hiatus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919922674     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: 18619533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-3265-6     Document Type: Article

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