Airmass origin in the Arctic. Part I: Seasonality

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4997-5014

  Orbe, Clara ^a   Newman, Paul A ^a   Waugh, Darryn W ^b   Holzer, Mark ^c,d   Oman, Luke D ^a   Li, Feng ^e   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^c,f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Large scale motions; Pollution; Transport

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTH (PLANET); POLLUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE MOTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRANSPORT; WESTERN PACIFIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR MASS; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; EOS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONALITY;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84931587218     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00720.1     Document Type: Article

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