Observational assessment of Arctic Ocean sea ice motion, export, and thickness in CMIP3 climate simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Kwok, R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA LEVEL;

ARCTIC BASIN; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DATA SETS; ENSEMBLE BEHAVIOR; GAS CONCENTRATION; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; ICE VOLUMES; MULTI-MODEL; SEA ICE MOTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE COVER; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053322223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007004     Document Type: Article

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