The sensitivity of the Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness and its dependence on the surface albedo parameterization

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1355-1370

  Björk, Göran ^a   Stranne, Christian ^a   Borenäs, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN SEA ICES; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; EXTERNAL FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SOLAR INSOLATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; SEA ICE; SNOW; SUN;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ICE THICKNESS; INSOLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84874914705     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00085.1     Document Type: Article

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