Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 555-559

  Dai, Aiguo ^a,b   Fyfe, John C ^c   Xie, Shang Ping ^d   Dai, Xingang ^e  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84929783387     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2605     Document Type: Article

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