The summertime arctic atmosphere: Meteorological measurements during the Arctic Ocean Experiment 2001

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1305-1321

  Tjernström, Michael ^a   Leck, Caroline ^a   Persson, P Ola G ^b   Jensen, Michael L ^c   Oncley, Steven P ^d   Targino, Admir ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Coop Inst Res in Environ Studies ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE; ARCTIC ATMOSPHERE; ARCTIC WARMING; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 5644303230     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-9-1305     Document Type: Article

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