The early twentieth-century warming in the arctic - A possible mechanism

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4045-4057

  Bengtsson, Lennart ^a,b   Semenov, Vladimir A ^a,c   Johannessen, Ola M ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WIND EFFECTS;

SEA ICE VARIATIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE RETREAT; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WESTERLY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 3843056387     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<4045:TETWIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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