Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 898-902

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Teng, Haiyan ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; HINDCASTING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION;

EID: 84923175254     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2357     Document Type: Article

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