The Changing Climates

Changing Cold Environments: A Canadian Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-104

  Barry, Roger ^a,b   Serreze, Mark ^b,c  

^a Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice reduction extent and atmospheric circulation patterns; Canada's climate, becoming warmer and wetter; Changing climates; Changing cryosphere; Last glacial cycle, series of so called Heinrich events; Northern Annular Mode (NAM), the Arctic Oscillation (AO); Physical reasoning, simulations with coupled global climate models; Postglacial Holocene epoch and Milankovitch effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886048395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119950172.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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