The Likelihood of Recent Record Warmth

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mann, Michael E ^a   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^b   Steinman, Byron A ^c   Tingley, Martin ^a   Miller, Sonya K ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL;

EID: 84955446442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19831     Document Type: Article

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