Seasonal to interannual climate predictability in mid and high northern latitudes in a global coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 783-798

  Koenigk, Torben ^a   Mikolajewicz, Uwe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coupled atmosphere ocean sea ice processes; Global coupled atmosphere ocean modeling; Midand high latitude climate; Predictability; Seasonal to interannual variability

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE COVER; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 62549114487     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0419-1     Document Type: Article

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