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SUBMITTER: Swanson KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2752544 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Swanson Kyle L KL Sugihara George G Tsonis Anastasios A AA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090914 38
Global mean temperature at the Earth's surface responds both to externally imposed forcings, such as those arising from anthropogenic greenhouse gases, as well as to natural modes of variability internal to the climate system. Variability associated with these latter processes, generally referred to as natural long-term climate variability, arises primarily from changes in oceanic circulation. Here we present a technique that objectively identifies the component of inter-decadal global mean surf ...[more]