Antarctic sea ice climatology, variability, and late twentieth-century change in CCSM4

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4817-4838

  Landrum, Laura ^a   Holland, Marika M ^a   Schneider, David P ^a   Hunke, Elizabeth ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climate models; Climate variability; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL TRENDS; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; AUSTRAL WINTER; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ICE COVER; ICE GROWTH; ICE LOSS; PACIFIC SECTOR; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WESTERLY WINDS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84859310963     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00289.1     Document Type: Article

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