Observations reveal external driver for Arctic sea-ice retreat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Notz, Dirk ^a   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; ARCTIC SEA-ICE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; EARLY WARNING; EXTERNAL FORCING; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM TREND; MODEL SIMULATION; STRONG CORRELATION;

SEA ICE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE RETREAT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861303023     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051094     Document Type: Article

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