Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 181-184

  Pithan, Felix ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ICE COVER; ICE RETREAT; LATITUDE; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84895461097     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2071     Document Type: Article

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