Global temperature evolution: Recent trends and some pitfalls

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Rahmstorf, Stefan ^a   Foster, Grant ^b   Cahill, Niamh ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UMASS Amherst ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

global temperature; slowdown; temperature records; time series

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; TIME SERIES;

GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; RECENT TRENDS; SHORT TERM; SLOWDOWN; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 85018376611     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6825     Document Type: Article

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