Midlatitude moisture contribution to recent Arctic tropospheric summertime variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5693-5707

  Laliberté, Frédéric ^a   Kushner, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Heat budgets fluxes; Interannual variability; Latent heating cooling; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; REANALYSIS;

ENTHALPY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84905191735     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00721.1     Document Type: Article

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