Effects of continental-scale snow albedo anomalies on the wintertime Arctic oscillation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Allen, R J ^a   Zender, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; DATA SUPPORT; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; EURASIA; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE RESPONSE; SIBERIA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW MASS; STATIONARY WAVES; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE RESPONSE; WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE REFRACTION; WINTER SEASONS;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE ACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

EURASIA;

EID: 78649930879     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014490     Document Type: Article

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