Cold months in a warming climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Räisänen, Jouni ^a   Ylhäisi, Jussi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING;

20TH CENTURY; ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND AREAS; MULTI-MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL OCEAN; WARMING CLIMATE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

EID: 81755184080     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049758     Document Type: Article

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