Twenty-first-century climate impacts from a declining Arctic sea ice cover

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1109-1125

  Singarayer, Joy S ^a   Bamber, Jonathan L ^a   Valdes, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE IMPACTS; OCEAN-TO-ATMOSPHERE FLUXES; SURFACE ALBEDO;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33646382581     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3649.1     Document Type: Article

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