Recent global warming hiatus dominated by low-latitude temperature trends in surface and troposphere data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 510-517

  Gleisner, Hans ^a   Thejll, Peter ^a   Christiansen, Bo ^a   Nielsen, Johannes K ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

hiatus; temperature trends; troposphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HIATUS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; LATITUDE; POLAR REGION; SAMPLING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84923542309     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062596     Document Type: Article

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