Robust Arctic sea-ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 869-873

  Mori, Masato ^a   Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Shiogama, Hideo ^b   Inoue, Jun ^c   Kimoto, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; EURASIA; KARA SEA;

EID: 84921774179     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2277     Document Type: Article

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