Why does the Antarctic Peninsula Warm in climate simulations?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 913-927

  Qu, Xin ^a   Hall, Alex ^a   Boé, Julien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Latent heat transport; Warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; ICE RETREAT; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84857442591     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1092-3     Document Type: Article

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