Improvement in simulation of Eurasian winter climate variability with a realistic Arctic sea ice condition in an atmospheric GCM

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lim, Young Kwon ^a,b   Ham, Yoo Geun ^a,c   Jeong, Jee Hoon ^d   Kug, Jong Seong ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^e Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

atmospheric GCM; mid latitude winter climate; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANNUAL CYCLE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MID-LATITUDE WINTER CLIMATE; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA;

EID: 84871836544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044041     Document Type: Article

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