Seasonal climate sensitivity to the sea-ice cover in an intermediate complexity AGCM

Geofizika

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-58

  Herceg Bulić, Ivana ^a   Branković, Čedo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Intermediate complexity AGCM; Seasonal climate sensitivity; Thermodynamic effects of sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33746084058     PISSN: 03523659     EISSN: 18466346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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