Atmospheric forcing of antarctic sea ice on intraseasonal time scales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5962-5975

  Renwick, James A ^a   Kohout, Alison ^a   Dean, Sam ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Atmospheric circulation; Empirical orthogonal functions; Intraseasonal variability; Rossby waves; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; ROSSBY WAVE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867671059     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00423.1     Document Type: Article

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