Contribution of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation to twentieth-century global surface temperature trends

Gerald A. Meehl (), Aixue Hu, Benjamin D. Santer and Shang-Ping Xie
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Gerald A. Meehl: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Aixue Hu: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Benjamin D. Santer: Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Shang-Ping Xie: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 11, 1005-1008

Abstract: Natural multidecadal climate variability contributes to global mean surface temperature trends. This study quantifies those from the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, finding that the largest contributions are during the positive phase, which accelerates warming.

Date: 2016
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