Attribution of Arctic temperature change to greenhouse-gas and aerosol influences

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 246-249

  Najafi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Zwiers, Francis W ^a   Gillett, Nathan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84923858133     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2524     Document Type: Article

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