Nonlinear winter atmospheric circulation response to Arctic sea ice concentration anomalies for different periods during 1966-2012

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Semenov, V A ^a,b,c,d   Latif, M ^a,e  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

AGCM; Anomalously cold winters; Arctic sea ice; Eurasian climate change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; SEA ICE; STORMS;

AGCM; ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; COLD WINTER; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NONLINEARITY; SEA ICE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA;

EID: 84930221909     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054020     Document Type: Article

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