Twentieth-century trends of Arctic precipitation from observational data and a climate model simulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1362-1370

  Kattsov, Vladimir M ^a   Walsh, John E ^b  

^a VOEIKOV MAIN GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; OCEAN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SEA ICE MARGIN;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0034043776     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1362:TCTOAP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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