Arctic summer storm track in CMIP3/5 climate models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1311-1327

  Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a   Orsolini, Yvan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Climate model; Cyclone; Storm track

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929996186     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2229-y     Document Type: Article

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