Spatiotemporal Divergence of the Warming Hiatus over Land Based on Different Definitions of Mean Temperature

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Chunluë ^a,b   Wang, Kaicun ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD AIR; COLD STRESS; LATITUDE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RADIATION; SEASON; WARMING;

EID: 84982289283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31789     Document Type: Article

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