The role of barents sea ice in the wintertime cyclone track and emergence of a warm-Arctic cold-Siberian anomaly

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2561-2569

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Hori, Masatake E ^a   Takaya, Koutarou ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Cyclogenesis cyclolysis; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; BARENTS SEA; BAROCLINICITY; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE ACTIVITY; CYCLONE TRACKS; EAST ASIA; EASTERN SIBERIA; NORDIC SEAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WARM ADVECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE;

STORMS;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLOGENESIS; SEA ICE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84859351358     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00449.1     Document Type: Article

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