Modeled Northern Hemisphere winter climate response to realistic Siberian snow anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3917-3931

  Gong, Gavin ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^a   Cohen, Judah ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SNOW; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

WAVE FLUX;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW; TELECONNECTION; WINTER;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 0345476522     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3917:MNHWCR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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