The impact of Greenland's deglaciation on the Arctic circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Dethloff, K ^a   Dorn, W ^a   Rinke, A ^a   Fraedrich, K ^b   Junge, M ^b   Roeckner, E ^c   Gayler, V ^c   Cubasch, U ^d   Christensen, J H ^e  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

1610 Global change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 1620 Global change: Climate dynamics (3309); 3349 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Polar meteorology; 3354 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Precipitation (1854); 3364 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Synoptic scale meteorology

Indexed keywords

BAROMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OZONE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ALASKA; ATMOSPHERIC FRESHWATER; ATMOSPHERIC WINTER; DEGLACIATION;

ATMOSPHERICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POLAR METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11044226913     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020714     Document Type: Article

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