The freshwater balance of polar regions in transient simulations from 1500 to 2100 AD using a comprehensive coupled climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 347-363

  Lehner, Flavio ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Hofer, Dominik ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

External forcing; Freshwater balance; Hydrological cycle; Little Ice Age; Polar climate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LITTLE ICE AGE; POLAR REGION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84863002601     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1199-6     Document Type: Article

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