Trends in hemispheric warm and cold anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 9065-9071

  Robeson, Scott M ^a   Willmott, Cort J ^b   Jones, Phil D ^c,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

hemispheric change; spatial percentiles; temperature anomalies

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

HEMISPHERIC CHANGE; LINEAR TRENDS; RECENT TRENDS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL DISPERSION; SPATIAL PERCENTILES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

DISPERSIONS;

COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

EID: 84921746497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062323     Document Type: Article

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