Comparative analysis of the Western Arctic surface climate among observations and model simulations

Earth Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Wu, Wanli ^a   Lynch, Amanda H ^b   Drobot, Sheldon ^c   Maslanik, James ^c   McGuire, A David ^d   Herzfeld, Ute ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate trend; Interannual variability; Regional climate modeling

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LARGE DATASET; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE TRENDS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77954227347     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI202.1     Document Type: Article

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