The importance of spring atmospheric conditions for predictions of the Arctic summer sea ice extent

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5288-5296

  Kapsch, Marie Luise ^a   Graversen, Rune G ^a   Economou, Theodoros ^b   Tjernström, Michael ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic climate variability; polar meteorology; sea ice; seasonal sea ice prediction

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; STATISTICAL REGRESSION MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; POLAR REGION; SEA ICE; SPRING (SEASON);

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84904772922     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060826     Document Type: Article

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