Sensitivity of Hudson Bay Sea ice and ocean climate to atmospheric temperature forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1835-1849

  Joly, S ^a   Senneville, S ^a   Caya, D ^b   Saucier, F J ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b Consortium Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY;

EID: 79851502894     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0731-4     Document Type: Article

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