On the arctic wintertime climate in global climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5757-5771

  Svensson, Gunilla ^a   Karlsson, Johannes ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate models; Fluxes; Model comparison; Surface observations; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ARCTIC; ARCTIC REGIONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DATA SETS; DOWN-WELLING; ENERGY FLUXES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LONG WAVES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL RESULTS; MULTI-MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIATIVE FLUXES; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SECOND GROUP; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; WINTER/COOL SEASON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; HEAT FLUX; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR MASS; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWNWELLING; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPEN OCEAN; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SEA ICE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 83755207503     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4012.1     Document Type: Article

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