Greenland ice sheet surface air temperature variability: 1840-2007

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4029-4049

  Box, Jason E ^a,c   Yang, Lei ^b   Bromwich, David H ^a   Bai, Le Sheng ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ARCTIC CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; IN-PHASE; INTERDECADAL; MELT RATE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODEL OUTPUTS; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NONSYSTEMATIC ERRORS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL RECONSTRUCTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; GLACIERS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; VOLCANOES;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE SHEET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 68749083656     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2816.1     Document Type: Article

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