Twentieth century Antarctic air temperature and snowfall simulations by IPCC climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Monaghan, Andrew J ^a   Bromwich, David H ^a,b   Schneider, David P ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROFLUIDICS; SURFACES;

20TH CENTURY; AIR TEMPERATURE (T); CLIMATE MODELLING; DATA SETS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS (GCMS); INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC); NEAR-SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE SHEET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 45549087287     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032630     Document Type: Article

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