The impact of stratospheric volcanic aerosol on decadal-scale climate predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 834-842

  Timmreck, Claudia ^a   Pohlmann, Holger ^a   Illing, Sebastian ^b   Kadow, Christopher ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMIP5; decadal predictions; decadal variability; volcanoes

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; TROPICS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

VOLCANOES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84958041811     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067431     Document Type: Article

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