Simulation of present-day and future permafrost and seasonally frozen ground conditions in CCSM4

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2207-2225

  Lawrence, David M ^a   Slater, Andrew G ^b   Swenson, Sean C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate models; Climate prediction; Coupled models; Land surface model

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS; GROUND TEMPERATURE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; NEAR-SURFACE; OFFLINE; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND; SOIL PHYSICS;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; EARTH (PLANET); FEEDBACK; SOIL MECHANICS; VEGETATION;

PERMAFROST;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; FROZEN GROUND; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84859343365     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00334.1     Document Type: Article

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