Impact of the global warming hiatus on Andean temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3745-3757

  Vuille, Mathias ^a   Franquist, Eric ^a   Garreaud, René ^b   Lavado Casimiro, Waldo Sven ^c   Cáceres, Bolivar ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c Servicio Nacional de Meteorologa e Hidrologa del Peru   (Peru)

^d Instituto Nacional de Meteorologiá e Hidrologiá   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

ANDES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84930379734     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023126     Document Type: Article

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