Early twentieth-century warming linked to tropical Pacific wind strength

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 117-121

  Thompson, Diane M ^a,e   Cole, Julia E ^a,b   Shen, Glen T ^c   Tudhope, Alexander W ^d   Meehl, Gerald A ^e  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Proposal Exponent   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; TRADE WIND; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WIND FIELD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84923263398     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2321     Document Type: Article

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