Arctic warming, atmospheric blocking and cold European winters in CMIP5 models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Woollings, T ^a   Harvey, B ^b   Masato, G ^b  

^a Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmospheric circulation; climate change; estreme events; sea ice

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ESTREME EVENTS; MIDLATITUDES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SEA ICE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84928096085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/1/014002     Document Type: Article

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