Observed multivariable signals of late 20th and early 21st century volcanic activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 500-509

  Santer, Benjamin D ^a   Solomon, Susan ^b   Bonfils, Céline ^a   Zelinka, Mark D ^a   Painter, Jeffrey F ^a   Beltran, Francisco ^a   Fyfe, John C ^c   Johannesson, Gardar ^a   Mears, Carl ^d   Ridley, David A ^b   Vernier, Jean Paul ^e   Wentz, Frank J ^d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Signal detection; Volcanic forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANOES;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS; MULTI-VARIABLE SIGNALS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; VOLCANIC FORCING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84923621304     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062366     Document Type: Article

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