Determining the likelihood of pauses and surges in global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5974-5982

  Schurer, Andrew P ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^a   Obrochta, Stephen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

natural climate variability

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MODEL RESULTS; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; PROXY RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TWO SOURCES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; RECONSTRUCTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMBAWA; TAMBORA; WEST NUSA TENGGARA;

EID: 84938954088     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064458     Document Type: Article

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