Arctic sea ice response to atmospheric forcings with varying levels of anthropogenic warming and climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Jinlun ^a   Steele, Michael ^a   Schweiger, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ANNUAL MEAN; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ARCTIC SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE INDICATORS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FORCINGS; ICE COVER; ICE GROWTH; ICE VOLUMES; LOW LEVEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78149265301     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044988     Document Type: Article

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