Modeled climate state and dynamic responses to anomalous north American snow cover

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 785-799

  Sobolowski, Stefan ^a   Gong, Gavin ^a   Ting, Mingfang ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINICITY; CLIMATIC RESPONSE; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENTRANCE REGION; EURASIA; FORCINGS; LOCAL SURFACES; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REMOTE SURFACES; SNOW COVERS; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL PROPERTIES; TIME-SCALES; TRACK DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTS; STORMS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SNOW COVER; SPRING (SEASON); STORM TRACK; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77952256327     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3219.1     Document Type: Article

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