Debunking the climate hiatus

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 129-140

  Rajaratnam, Bala ^a   Romano, Joseph ^a   Tsiang, Michael ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPORAL DEPENDENCE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949664048     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1495-y     Document Type: Article

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