Contributions of atmospheric circulation variability and data coverage bias to the warming hiatus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2385-2391

  Saffioti, Claudio ^a   Fischer, Erich M ^a   Knutti, Reto ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

atmospheric circulation; coverage bias; dynamical adjustment; internal climate variability; natural climate variability; warming hiatus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COVERAGE BIAS; DYNAMICAL ADJUSTMENT; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; WARMING HIATUS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HIATUS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84928701941     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063091     Document Type: Article

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