The emergence of surface-based Arctic amplification

Cryosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-19

  Serreze, M C ^a   Barrett, A P ^a   Stroeve, J C ^a   Kindig, D N ^a   Holland, M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 69949147545     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-3-11-2009     Document Type: Article

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