An Assessment of precipitation changes over antarctica and the southern ocean since 1989 in contemporary global reanalyses

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4189-4209

  Bromwich, David H ^a   Nicolas, Julien P ^a   Monaghan, Andrew J ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Precipitation; Satellite observations; Sea level; Southern Ocean; Trends, Climate change

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECTS; CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE FORECASTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; INHOMOGENEITIES; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRESSURE FIELD; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRENDS, CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELS; DATA PROCESSING; NASA; RATING; SEA LEVEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; MASS BALANCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79955366942     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4074.1     Document Type: Article

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