Influence of changes in sea ice concentration and cloud cover on recent Arctic surface temperature trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Yinghui ^a   Key, Jeffrey R ^b   Wang, Xuanji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLOUD COVER; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WARMING; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; COOLING; INFLOW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 72149089005     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040708     Document Type: Article

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