Atmospheric impacts of Arctic sea-ice loss, 1979-2009: Separating forced change from atmospheric internal variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 333-344

  Screen, James A ^a,b   Deser, Clara ^c   Simmonds, Ian ^b   Tomas, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; Atmospheric modelling; Detection and attribution; Ensembles; Internal variability; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DETECTION METHOD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ICE COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84906084883     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1830-9     Document Type: Article

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