Global and regional surface cooling in a warming climate: a multi-model analysis

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2016, Pages 3899-3920

  Medhaug, Iselin ^a,b,c   Drange, Helge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMIP5; Decadal variability; Global warming; Hiatus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84940881313     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2811-y     Document Type: Article

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