Commentary

Reconciling warming trends

Climate models projected stronger warming over the past 15 years than has been seen in observations. Conspiring factors of errors in volcanic and solar inputs, representations of aerosols, and El Niño evolution, may explain most of the discrepancy.

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    • Gavin A. Schmidt
    •  & Drew T. Shindell

  2. Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, 2880 Broadway, New York, New York 10025, USA

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