Impacts of Arctic sea ice and continental snow cover changes on atmospheric winter teleconnections

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2367-2377

  Handorf, Dörthe ^a   Jaiser, Ralf ^a   Dethloff, Klaus ^a   Rinke, Annette ^a   Cohen, Judah ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cold Eurasian winters; planetary wave activity; polar midlatitude linkages

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SEA ICE; SNOW; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN SEA ICES; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; COLD EURASIAN WINTERS; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; TROPOSPHERE-STRATOSPHERE SYSTEM;

ICE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; TELECONNECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84928704837     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063203     Document Type: Article

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