Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6526-6534

  Cowtan, Kevin ^a   Hausfather, Zeke ^b   Hawkins, Ed ^c   Jacobs, Peter ^d   Mann, Michael E ^e   Miller, Sonya K ^e   Steinman, Byron A ^f   Stolpe, Martin B ^g   Way, Robert G ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^g Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate models; temperature record

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SYSTEMATIC BIAS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLICY MAKING; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84940448425     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064888     Document Type: Article

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