Precipitation shifts over western North America as a result of declining Arctic sea ice cover: The coupled system response

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 1-23

  Sewall, Jacob O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; Climate change; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; SEA ICE; WATER RESOURCES;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED CLIMATE SYSTEMS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77955948813     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI171.1     Document Type: Article

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