Simulated Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6221-6242

  Holland, Marika M ^a   Finnis, Joel ^b   Serreze, Mark C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FRESHWATER BUDGETS; FRESHWATER FLUX; NET PRECIPITATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELING; FRESHWATER INPUT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33846171206     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3967.1     Document Type: Article

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