Vertical structure of recent arctic warming from observed data and reanalysis products

Climatic Change

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-239

  Alexeev, Vladimir A ^a   Esau, Igor ^b,c   Polyakov, Igor V ^a   Byam, Sarah J ^a   Sorokina, Svetlana ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC ATMOSPHERE; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC WARMING; CANADIAN ARCTIC; COMPLEX NATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; FRESHWATER CONTENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INHOMOGENEITIES; NCEP/NCAR; NEAR-SURFACE; OBSERVED DATA; RADIOSONDE DATAS; REANALYSIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICAL TESTS; TROPOSPHERE;

DATA PROCESSING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; INHOMOGENEITY; POLAR VORTEX; RADIOSONDE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC; CANADA;

EID: 84856735518     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0192-8     Document Type: Article

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