Arctic sea ice reduction and extreme climate events over the mediterranean region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 10101-10110

  Grassi, Barbara ^a   Redaelli, Gianluca ^a   Visconti, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Forcing; General circulation models; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; ICE COVER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; GREECE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; ITALY; KARA SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84890183545     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00697.1     Document Type: Article

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