A reassessment of temperature variations and trends from global reanalyses and monthly surface climatological datasets

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 143, Issue 702, 2017, Pages 101-119

  Simmons, A J ^a   Berrisford, P ^a   Dee, D P ^a   Hersbach, H ^a   Hirahara, S ^a   Thepaut J N ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic warming; atmospheric energy; El Ni o; reanalysis; temperature trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATASETS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 85006494438     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2949     Document Type: Article

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