Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Absence of internal multidecadal and interdecadal oscillations in climate model simulations

  • Michael E. Mann,
  • Byron A. Steinman,
  • Sonya K. Miller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13823-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The existence of regular decadal or longer climate oscillations has been the subject of intensive discussion. Here, statistical analysis of observational data and a large ensemble of model simulations show no evidence for longer-term internal oscillations that are distinguishable from climatic noise.