Persistent cold air outbreaks over North America in a warming climate

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Gao, Yang ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^a   Lu, Jian ^a   Masato, Giacomo ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cold air outbreaks; dynamical and thermodynamical modulations; multi model projections; temperature skewness

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MODULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA ICE; SNOW;

COLD AIR OUTBREAK; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; MULTI MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMODYNAMICAL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SKEWNESS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928734703     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/4/044001     Document Type: Article

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