Cold winter extremes in northern continents linked to Arctic sea ice loss

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tang, Qiuhong ^a   Zhang, Xuejun ^a,b   Yang, Xiaohua ^b   Francis, Jennifer A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; cold winter extreme; northern continents; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; STORMS;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; COLD WINTER; NORTHERN CONTINENTS; NORTHERN LATITUDES; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

SEA ICE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; HIGH PRESSURE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84876198815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014036     Document Type: Article

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