Distinct energy budgets for anthropogenic and natural changes during global warming hiatus

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 29-33

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Kosaka, Yu ^b   Okumura, Yuko M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; ENERGY BUDGET; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HIATUS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84951732393     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2581     Document Type: Article

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