Atmospheric response to the extreme Arctic sea ice conditions in 2007

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Blthgen, Jonas ^a,b   Gerdes, Rüdiger ^a,c   Werner, Martin ^c  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

ARCTIC SEA; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; EASTERN ARCTIC; ICE LOSS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SIBERIA; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

SEA ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SIBERIA;

EID: 84856444272     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050486     Document Type: Article

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