Did the global temperature trend change at the end of the 1990s?

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 48 - Trang 339-344 - 2012
Tom Quirk1
1Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Australia

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The apparent leveling of the global temperature time series at the end of the 1990s may represent a break in the upward trend. A study of the time series measurements for temperature, carbon dioxide, humidity and methane shows changes coincident with phase changes of the Atlantic and Pacific Decadal Oscillations. There are changes in carbon dioxide, humidity and methane measurement series in 2000. If these changes mark a phase change of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation then it might explain the global temperature behavior.

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