The rogue nature of hiatuses in a global warming climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 8169-8177

  Sevellec F ^a   Sinha, B ^b   Skliris, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

global warming hiatus; global warming surge; multimodel analysis; probabilistic analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODELLING CAPABILITIES; MULTI-MODEL; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER SURGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; PROBABILITY; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 84982958700     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068950     Document Type: Article

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