Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Dole, Randall ^a   Hoerling, Martin ^a   Perlwitz, Judith ^b   Eischeid, Jon ^b   Pegion, Philip ^b   Zhang, Tao ^b   Quan, Xiao Wei ^b   Xu, Taiyi ^b   Murray, Donald ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE FORCINGS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EARLY WARNING; GAS CONCENTRATION; HEAT WAVES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MODEL SIMULATION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUMMER HEAT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT BALANCE; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79952981311     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046582     Document Type: Article

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