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Title: Celebrating the anniversary of three key events in climate change science

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Climate science celebrates three 40th anniversaries in 2019: the release of the Charney report, the publication of a key paper on anthropogenic signal detection, and the start of satellite temperature measurements. This confluence of scientific understanding and data led to the identification of human fingerprints in atmospheric temperature. The 1970s saw growing concern about the potential for anthropogenic climate change. In this paper, we focus on understanding how the scientific advances arising from the three anniversary events aided efforts to identify human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere.

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 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [1];  [1];  [5];  [1];  [6]
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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  3. Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis and Climate Change, Victoria, BC (United States)
  4. Univ. of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
  5. Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA (United States)
  6. Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); European Research Council (ERC)
OSTI Identifier:
1647443
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-758507
Journal ID: ISSN 1758-678X; 946666
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; NNH12CF05C; NA18OAR4310423; EC-320691; WM130060
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Climate Change
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; Climate change; history; ocean sciences

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Santer, Benjamin D., Bonfils, Céline W., Fu, Qiang, Fyfe, John C., Hegerl, Gabriele C., Mears, Carl, Painter, Jeffrey F., Po-Chedley, Stephen, Wentz, Frank J., Zelinka, Mark D., and Zou, Cheng-Zhi. Celebrating the anniversary of three key events in climate change science. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0424-x.
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Santer, Benjamin D., Bonfils, Céline W., Fu, Qiang, Fyfe, John C., Hegerl, Gabriele C., Mears, Carl, Painter, Jeffrey F., Po-Chedley, Stephen, Wentz, Frank J., Zelinka, Mark D., & Zou, Cheng-Zhi. Celebrating the anniversary of three key events in climate change science. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0424-x
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Santer, Benjamin D., Bonfils, Céline W., Fu, Qiang, Fyfe, John C., Hegerl, Gabriele C., Mears, Carl, Painter, Jeffrey F., Po-Chedley, Stephen, Wentz, Frank J., Zelinka, Mark D., and Zou, Cheng-Zhi. Mon . "Celebrating the anniversary of three key events in climate change science". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0424-x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1647443.
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@article{osti_1647443,
title = {Celebrating the anniversary of three key events in climate change science},
author = {Santer, Benjamin D. and Bonfils, Céline W. and Fu, Qiang and Fyfe, John C. and Hegerl, Gabriele C. and Mears, Carl and Painter, Jeffrey F. and Po-Chedley, Stephen and Wentz, Frank J. and Zelinka, Mark D. and Zou, Cheng-Zhi},
abstractNote = {Climate science celebrates three 40th anniversaries in 2019: the release of the Charney report, the publication of a key paper on anthropogenic signal detection, and the start of satellite temperature measurements. This confluence of scientific understanding and data led to the identification of human fingerprints in atmospheric temperature. The 1970s saw growing concern about the potential for anthropogenic climate change. In this paper, we focus on understanding how the scientific advances arising from the three anniversary events aided efforts to identify human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere.},
doi = {10.1038/s41558-019-0424-x},
journal = {Nature Climate Change},
number = 3,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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