Eurasian Winter Cooling: Intercomparison of Reanalyses and CMIP5 Data Sets

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 324-331

  Outten, Stephen ^a   Davy, Richard ^a   Esau, Igor ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

atmospheric tele connections; climate change; climate simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CMIP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; KARA SEA;

EID: 84904565825     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3878/j.issn.1674-2834.12.0112     Document Type: Article

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