Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Earlier emergence of a temperature response to mitigation by filtering annual variability

  • B. H. Samset,
  • C. Zhou,
  • J. S. Fuglestvedt,
  • M. T. Lund,
  • J. Marotzke,
  • M. D. Zelinka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29247-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The pattern of sea surface temperatures affects global mean temperatures from year to year. By filtering out parts of this natural variability, researchers show that they can more rapidly detect the influence of mitigation of CO2 emissions on the climate