Northern hemisphere storm tracks during the last glacial maximum in the PMIP2 ocean-atmosphere coupled models: Energetic study, seasonal cycle, precipitation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 593-614

  Laîné, Alexandre ^a   Kageyama, M ^a   Salas Melia D ^b   Voldoire, A ^b   Rivielre G ^b   Ramstein, G ^a   Planton, S ^b   Tyteca, S ^b   Peterschmitt, J Y ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STORM TRACK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 60349100156     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0391-9     Document Type: Article

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