The tropical Pacific as a key pacemaker of the variable rates of global warming

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 669-673

  Kosaka, Yu ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL WARMING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; REAL TIME; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84984917736     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2770     Document Type: Article

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