A numerical sensitivity study of the influence of Siberian snow on the northern annular mode

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 592-607

  Peings, Y ^a   Saint Martin, D ^a   Douville, H ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Atmosphere land interaction; Circulation models; CouplingGeneral; Interannual variability; Snow; Stratophere troposphere

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTION; CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLINGGENERAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; STRATOPHERE-TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS;

SNOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR VORTEX; SNOW; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84856949003     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00038.1     Document Type: Article

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