The global warming hiatus—a natural product of interactions of a secular warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 349-360

  Yao, Shuai Lei ^a,b   Huang, Gang ^a,c   Wu, Ren Guang ^a   Qu, Xia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HIATUS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84953836862     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-014-1358-x     Document Type: Article

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