Influence of the western North Atlantic and the Barents Sea on European winter climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 561-567

  Gerber, Franziska ^a   Sedláček, Jan ^a   Knutti, Reto ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Europe; sea ice anomalies; SST anomalies; temperature extremes

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; SEA ICE;

EUROPE; FORCED COOLING; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST ANOMALIES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); BARENTS SEA; EUROPE;

EID: 84893008724     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058778     Document Type: Article

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