Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hausfather, Zeke ^a,b   Cowtan, Kevin ^c   Clarke, David C ^d   Jacobs, Peter ^e   Richardson, Mark ^f   Rohde, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Berkeley Earth   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d George Mason University ^*  (Canada)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE WATERS;

ARGO FLOAT; COOLING BIAS; FLOATING BUOY; INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 85020042323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601207     Document Type: Article

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