Revisiting whether recent surface temperature trends agree with the CMIP5 ensemble

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 8673-8687

  Lin, Marena ^a   Huybers, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate variability; Interdecadal variability; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVATION MODEL; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRENDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 85000949343     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0123.1     Document Type: Article

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