Quantifying the role of internal climate variability in future climate trends

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6443-6456

  Thompson, David W J ^a   Barnes, Elizabeth A ^a   Deser, Clara ^b   Foust, William E ^a   Phillips, Adam S ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Trends

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTROL SIMULATION; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84942904818     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00830.1     Document Type: Article

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