Impact of prescribed Arctic sea ice thickness in simulations of the present and future climate

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 619-633

  Krinner, Gerhard ^a,b   Rinke, Annette ^a   Dethloff, Klaus ^a   Gorodetskaya, Irina V ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Modelling; Sea ice thickness

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956094957     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0587-7     Document Type: Article

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