Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades

Santer, Benjamin D.; Solomon, Susan; Wentz, Frank J.; Fu, Qiang; Po-Chedley, Stephen; Mears, Carl; Painter, Jeffrey F.; Bonfils, Céline

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Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades

2017
By: Santer, Benjamin D. ; Solomon, Susan ; Wentz, Frank J.
Source: Sci Rep 7, 2336 (2017)

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Scientific Reports
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Santer, Benjamin D. ; Solomon, Susan ; Wentz, Frank J. ; Fu, Qiang ; Po-Chedley, Stephen ; Mears, Carl ; Painter, Jeffrey F. ; Bonfils, Céline
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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CPO (Climate Program Office)
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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.
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Sci Rep 7, 2336 (2017)
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02520-7
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