What does global mean temperature tell us about local climate?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2054, 2015, Pages

  Sutton, Rowan ^a   Suckling, Emma ^a   Hawkins, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attribution; Climate; Detection; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ERROR DETECTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ATTRIBUTION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84943739743     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0426     Document Type: Article

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