Contribution of sea ice loss to Arctic amplification

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Perlwitz, Judith ^b   Eischeid, Jon ^b   Quan, Xiaowei ^b   Xu, Taiyi ^b   Zhang, Tao ^b   Hoerling, Martin ^b   Jha, Bhaskar ^a   Wang, Wanqui ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC LATITUDE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; ICE LOSS; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; SEASONALITY; SURFACE-BASED; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; WEAK SIGNALS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AMPLIFICATION; ANOMALY; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIATION; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78149434177     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045022     Document Type: Article

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