Arctic sea ice trends, variability and implications for seasonal ice forecasting

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2045, 2015, Pages

  Serreze, Mark C ^a   Stroeve, Julienne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric variability; Feedbacks; Prediction; Sea ice; Trends

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; FEEDBACK; FORECASTING; SEA ICE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALBEDO FEEDBACKS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; IMPROVED FORECAST; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; TRENDS;

ICE;

EID: 84930988928     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0159     Document Type: Article

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