Coupling between Arctic feedbacks and changes in poleward energy transport

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Hwang, Yen Ting ^a   Frierson, Dargan M W ^a   Kay, Jennifer E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DRY STATIC ENERGY; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; ENERGY TRANSPORT; LONG WAVES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; POLEWARD ENERGY TRANSPORT; SURFACE ALBEDO; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOTAL ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ALBEDO; AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLING; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 80052768870     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048546     Document Type: Article

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