Impact of instantaneous sea ice removal in a coupled general circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Schroder D ^a,b   Connolley, W M ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL;

CLIMATE MODELS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN MIXED LAYER; SEA ICE REMOVAL;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HADLEY CELL; MIXED LAYER; SEA ICE;

EID: 34548598659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030253     Document Type: Article

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