Toward a seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean: Scenarios from the IPCC AR4 model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1730-1747

  Zhang, Xiangdong ^a   Walsh, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLE; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSION SCENARIOS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; SIMULATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33744497049     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.21808     Document Type: Article

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