Contribution of natural decadal variability to global warming acceleration and hiatus

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 893-897

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Shiogama, Hideo ^b   Tatebe, Hiroaki ^c   Hayashi, Michiya ^a   Ishii, Masayoshi ^d   Kimoto, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TRADE WIND; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84925037534     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2355     Document Type: Article

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