A cloudier Arctic expected with diminishing sea ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Yinghui ^a   Key, Jeffrey R ^b   Liu, Zhengyu ^c   Wang, Xuanji ^a   Vavrus, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC SEA ICE; CLOUD COVER; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POLAR REGIONS; PRIMARY SOURCES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA-ICE COVER;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLAR REGION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863275739     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051251     Document Type: Article

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