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Assessing the robustness of zonal mean climate change detection
- Abstract:
- We assess the robustness of previous optimal detection and attribution studies considering zonal-mean temperatures. Principal results, which have consistently pointed towards a demonstrable anthropogenic influence on recently observed upper air temperatures, are confirmed. Importantly our detection results are not critically dependent on the inclusion of stratospheric as well as tropospheric temperatures. We find that detection is dependent on input field pre-processing choices, and on the choice of detection algorithm. There are a number of cases where either no signals are detected, or results fail a consistency test.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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- Funding agency for:
- Jones, G
- Tett, S
- Stott, P
- Parker, D
+ Public Met. Service Research and Development program
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- Funding agency for:
- Jones, G
- Tett, S
- Stott, P
- Parker, D
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Journal:
- Geophysical Research Letters More from this journal
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 19
- Pages:
- 1920
- Publication date:
- 2002-10-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0094–8276
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2010-11-22
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- Copyright holder:
- American Geophysical Union
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA. Citation: Thorne, P. W. et al. (2002). 'Assessing the robustness of zonal mean climate change detection', Geophysical Research Letters 29(19), 1920. [Available at http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/].
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