Projected changes in regional climate extremes arising from Arctic sea ice loss

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Screen, James A ^a   Deser, Clara ^b   Sun, Lantao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; climate; extremes; precipitation; sea ice; temperature; weather

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

ICE;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL ASIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84938704727     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084006     Document Type: Article

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