The early twentieth century warm period in the European Arctic

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 425-432

  Grant, Andrea N ^a   Brönnimann, Stefan ^a   Ewen, Tracy ^a   Griesser, Thomas ^a   Stickler, Alexander ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR DATA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION VARIABILITY; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CLEAN AIR; CLIMATIC EVENTS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; ICE CORE; LONG WAVES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MODEL STUDY; NORTH ATLANTIC; POLLUTED AIR MASS; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; SULPHATES; SVALBARD; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARM AIR; WARM TEMPERATURES; WESTERN EUROPE;

AEROSOLS; METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EUROPE;

EID: 77949372288     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0391     Document Type: Article

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