European cold winter 2009-2010: How unusual in the instrumental record and how reproducible in the ARPEGE-Climat model?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ouzeau, G ^a   Cattiaux, J ^a   Douville, H ^a   Ribes, A ^a   Saint Martin, D ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; BOREAL WINTERS; COLD WAVES; COLD WINTER; IN-LINE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL MEAN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER REGIMES; WINTER SEASONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOREAL; CLIMATE MODELING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WINTER;

EUROPE;

EID: 79959466874     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047667     Document Type: Article

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