Impact of a projected future Arctic Sea Ice reduction on extratropical storminess and the NAO

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 937-943

  Seierstad, Ivar A ^a   Bader, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

AGCM; Climate change; NAO; Sea ice; Seasonality; Storminess

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE COVER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 70350575453     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0463-x     Document Type: Article

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