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Challenges in Examining Climate Trends
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... The presentations spurred discussion about whether the global mean surface temperature (GMST) warming trend did indeed slow down during the early 2000s -- the answer to which depended on the timescale chosen and the quantification method used.
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... ; therefore the trend com t mputed for the baseline peri is low and not dissimila e iod d ar ecent trends. from re Fyfe su uggested that the baseline period should be physically based to reflect natural t p y variability.
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... he remainder of the workshop discussio delved into research to uncover the c r ons o contributions by various int ternal mechan nisms and ext ternal forcing, how they int , teract to produ global and uce regional decadal climat variability, and the poten d te ntial for increa ased knowled to lead to dge prediction of transition between pe ns ns eriods of slowe and faster w er warming of G GMST in response to GHG forcin t ng. 2 HadCRUT T4.3 is a gridde dataset of glo ed obal historical surface tempera s ature anomalie relative to a es 1961-1990 reference period.


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