Changes of Pacific decadal variability in the twentieth century driven by internal variability, greenhouse gases, and aerosols

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8570-8577

  Dong, Lu ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a,c   Chen, Xiaolong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

aerosol; greenhouse gases; internal variability; Pacific decadal variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EXTERNAL FORCING; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITIES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE FORCING; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHASE TRANSITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84921602358     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062269     Document Type: Article

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