Sensitivity of high-resolution Arctic regional climate model projections to different implementations of land surface processes

Climatic Change

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-214

  Matthes, Heidrun ^a   Rinke, Annette ^a   Miller, Paul A ^b   Kuhry, Peter ^c   Dethloff, Klaus ^a   Wolf, Annett ^d  

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

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; FREEZE/THAW; FREEZING/THAWING; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; ORGANIC SOIL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL PROCESS; TAKE-ALL; VEGETATION COVER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOPOTENTIAL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; MOISTURE CONTENT; ORGANIC SOIL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROPERTY; TOPSOIL; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84856735406     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0138-1     Document Type: Article

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