Limitations of a coupled regional climate model in the reproduction of the observed Arctic sea-ice retreat

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 985-998

  Dorn, W ^a   Dethloff, K ^a   Rinke, A ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ICE RETREAT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL PERIOD; VOLUME;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84874577544     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-985-2012     Document Type: Article

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