Can regional climate engineering save the summer Arctic sea ice?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 880-885

  Tilmes, S ^a   Jahn, Alexandra ^a   Kay, Jennifer E ^a   Holland, Marika ^a   Lamarque, Jean Francois ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic dimming; Arctic sea ice; geoengineering; regional climate engineering

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; GEOENGINEERING; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SIMULATION DEMONSTRATE; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET;

SEA ICE;

EMISSION; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY FLUX; ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84893169522     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058731     Document Type: Article

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