Quantifying Arctic contributions to climate predictability in a regional coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1157-1176

  Döscher, Ralf ^a   Wyser, Klaus ^a   Meier, H E Markus ^a   Qian, Minwei ^b   Redler, Reń ^c  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Coupled model; Predictability; Regional model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ICE SHEET; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; SURFACE PRESSURE; WIND DIRECTION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 77952882031     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0567-y     Document Type: Article

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