Comparing the model-simulated global warming signal to observations using empirical estimates of unforced noise

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Brown, Patrick T ^a   Li, Wenhong ^a   Cordero, Eugene C ^b   Mauget, Steven A ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84928398200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09957     Document Type: Article

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