The future of Arctic sea ice

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 625-654

  Maslowski, Wieslaw ^a   Clement Kinney, Jaclyn ^a   Higgins, Matthew ^b   Roberts, Andrew ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Climate change; Hierarchical Arctic climate modeling; Regional Arctic climate model; Sea ice thickness and volume; Uncertainty of climate prediction

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; KEY INDICATOR; MOISTURE BUDGET; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; PAN-ARCTIC; PAST AND PRESENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SEA-ICE COVER; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW COVERS; SYSTEM LEVELS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; MELTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERMAFROST; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SNOW COVER; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND;

EID: 84860510555     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105345     Document Type: Article

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