Compounding effects of warm sea surface temperature and reduced sea ice on the extreme circulation over the extratropical North Pacific and North America during the 2013-2014 boreal winter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1612-1618

  Lee, Ming Ying ^a   Hong, Chi Cherng ^b   Hsu, Huang Hsiung ^c  

^a CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice concentration; boreal winter 2013 2014; extreme climate; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOREAL WINTERS; EXTREME CLIMATES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AMPLITUDE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84925864914     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062956     Document Type: Article

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