Characteristics of Arctic Ocean climate based on COADS data, 1980-1993

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1953-1956

  Clark, Martyn P ^a   Serreze, Mark C ^a   Barry, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN CLIMATE; CLOUD COVER PEAK; COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN ATMOSPHERE DATA SET (COADS); PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; CLIMATIC REGIONS; CLOUD COVER; COADS DATA; MARINE CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CLIMATIC REGIONS; CLOUD COVER; COLD SEASON; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN; WARM SEASONS;

EID: 0030200082     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01807     Document Type: Article

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