Warm Arctic-cold continents: Climate impacts of the newly open arctic sea

Polar Research

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Overland, James E ^a   Wood, Kevin R ^b   Wang, Muyin ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Climate change; North atlantic oscillation; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POLAR VORTEX; SEA ICE; SNOW; WIND FIELD; WINTER;

ARCTIC; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84864193057     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v30i0.15787     Document Type: Article

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