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Five-Year Climatic Trend for the Northern Hemisphere

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Between May 1958 and April 1963 the mean temperature of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere fell by about 0.60° C. The data which lead to this conclusion are presented in this article.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    VICTOR P. STARR

  2. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

    ABRAHAM H. OORT

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STARR, V., OORT, A. Five-Year Climatic Trend for the Northern Hemisphere. Nature 242, 310–313 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242310a0

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