The influence of local feedbacks and northward heat transport on the equilibrium arctic climate response to increased greenhouse gas forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5433-5450

  Kay, Jennifer E ^a   Holland, Marika M ^a   Bitz, Cecilia M ^b   Blanchard Wrigglesworth, Edward ^b   Gettelman, Andrew ^a   Conley, Andrew ^a   Bailey, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate models; Clouds; Greenhouse gases

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ARCTIC SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; FLUX CONVERGENCE; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HEAT TRANSPORT; ICE LOSS; OCEAN MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SLAB OCEAN; SLAB OCEAN MODELS; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE CLIMATE; SURFACE RESPONSE; SURFACE WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOPHYSICS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATIVE FORCING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84859966114     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00622.1     Document Type: Article

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