Arctic oscillation during the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum from PMIP2 coupled model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3792-3813

  Lü, Jun Mei ^a,b   Kim, Seong Joong ^a   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^c   Yu, Yongqiang ^d   Ohgaito, Rumi ^e  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; HOLOCENES; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PALEOCLIMATES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; POLAR CAP REGION; POLAR VORTEX; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; ROSSBY WAVE; SECOND PHASE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE EXCHANGES; UNIFIED MODEL; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; ROSSBY WAVE; WESTERLY;

EID: 77954618561     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3331.1     Document Type: Article

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