Assessment of surface air temperature over the Arctic Ocean in reanalysis and IPCC AR4 model simulations with IABP/POLES observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Jiping ^a   Zhang, Zhanhai ^b   Hu, YongYun ^c   Chen, Liqi ^d   Dai, Yongjiu ^e   Ren, Xiaobo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; BARENTS SEA; GREENLAND SEA; NORTH POLE; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 48749085762     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009380     Document Type: Article

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