Present-day arctic sea ice variability in the coupled ECHAM5/MPI-OM model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2520-2543

  Koldunov, Nikolay V ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a   Marotzke, Jochem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; FRAM STRAIT; FULLY-COUPLED; HEAT CONTENTS; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE MODEL; ICE THICKNESS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NORTH POLE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; REANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER MONTHS; SURFACE FORCING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE THICKNESS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; NORTH POLE;

EID: 77954369582     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3065.1     Document Type: Article

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