Circulation response to eurasian versus north american anomalous snow scenarios in the northern hemisphere with an AGCM coupled to a slab ocean model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1502-1515

  Henderson, Gina R ^a   Leathers, Daniel J ^b   Hanson, Brian ^b  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Atmosphere land interaction; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric circulation; Climate models; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; KINETICS; SEA ICE;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EDDY; GEOPOTENTIAL; KINETIC ENERGY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW;

EURASIA;

EID: 84874790272     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00465.1     Document Type: Article

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