Decadal climate oscillations in the Arctic: a new feedback loop for atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3607-3610

  Mysak, Lawrence A ^a   Venegas, Silvia A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; DECADAL CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CYCLE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0032194102     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02782     Document Type: Article

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