On the relationship between winter sea ice and summer atmospheric circulation over Eurasia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5523-5536

  Wu, Bingyi ^a   Zhang, Renhe ^a   D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^b   Su, Jingzhi ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Climate variability; General circulation models; Hydrologic cycle; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; WIND VARIABILITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; SEA ICE;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; WINTER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; EURASIA; GREENLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84881234634     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00524.1     Document Type: Article

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