Atmospheric impacts of an Arctic sea ice minimum as seen in the community atmosphere model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 766-779

  Cassano, Elizabeth N ^a   Cassano, John J ^a   Higgins, Matthew E ^b   Serreze, Mark C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atmospheric modelling; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; SEA LEVEL;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896729531     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3723     Document Type: Article

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