Quantifying internally generated and externally forced climate signals at regional scales in CMIP5 models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 9394-9403

  Lyu, Kewei ^a,b   Zhang, Xuebin ^b   Church, John A ^b   Hu, Jianyu ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate model; external forcing; internal variability; sea level; surface air temperature; variance analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EXTERNAL FORCING; FIXED TIME INTERVAL; HISTORICAL PERIODS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE SIGNAL; LATITUDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOSPHERE; TROPICAL REGION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84954512049     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065508     Document Type: Article

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