A link between Arctic sea ice and recent cooling trends over Eurasia

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1069-1075

  Outten, S D ^a   Esau, I ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; COOLING TRENDS; DRIVING FACTORS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EURASIA; KARA SEA; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; COOLING; LATITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WESTERLY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; KARA SEA;

EID: 84856221542     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0334-z     Document Type: Article

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