Amplified inception of European little Ice Age by sea ice-ocean-atmosphere feedbacks

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7586-7602

  Lehner, Flavio ^a   Born, Andreas ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Coupled models; Feedback; North Atlantic Ocean; Paleoclimate; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; REINFORCEMENT; REPAIR; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; VOLCANOES;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COUPLED MODELS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84884959446     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00690.1     Document Type: Article

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