Diagnosing present and future permafrost from climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5608-5623

  Slater, Andrew G ^a   Lawrence, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Land surface; Land surface model; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; TEMPERATURE;

PERMAFROST;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND SURFACE; PERMAFROST; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84875832309     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00341.1     Document Type: Article

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