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Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability

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  • Ben B. B. Booth

    (Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK)

  • Nick J. Dunstone

    (Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK)

  • Paul R. Halloran

    (Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK)

  • Timothy Andrews

    (Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK)

  • Nicolas Bellouin

    (Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK)

Abstract

A state-of-the-art climate model shows that radiative forcing due to anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols explains the variability in sea surface temperature of the North Atlantic between 1950 and 2005.

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  • Ben B. B. Booth & Nick J. Dunstone & Paul R. Halloran & Timothy Andrews & Nicolas Bellouin, 2012. "Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability," Nature, Nature, vol. 484(7393), pages 228-232, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:484:y:2012:i:7393:d:10.1038_nature10946
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10946
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