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Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades.

Authors :
Santer BD
Solomon S
Wentz FJ
Fu Q
Po-Chedley S
Mears C
Painter JF
Bonfils C
Source :
Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2017 May 24; Vol. 7 (1), pp. 2336. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 May 24.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Satellite temperature measurements do not support the recent claim of a "leveling off of warming" over the past two decades. Tropospheric warming trends over recent 20-year periods are always significantly larger (at the 10% level or better) than model estimates of 20-year trends arising from natural internal variability. Over the full 38-year period of the satellite record, the separation between observed warming and internal variability estimates is even clearer. In two out of three recent satellite datasets, the tropospheric warming from 1979 to 2016 is unprecedented relative to internally generated temperature trends on the 38-year timescale.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2045-2322
Volume :
7
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Scientific reports
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
28539644
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02520-7