Eurasian snow cover variability and links to winter climate in the CMIP5 models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2591-2605

  Furtado, Jason C ^a   Cohen, Judah L ^a   Butler, Amy H ^b   Riddle, Emily E ^c,d   Kumar, Arun ^c  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Innovim   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Eurasian snow cover; Large scale extratropical climate variability; Stratosphere troposphere coupling

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SNOW COVER; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA;

EID: 84946477806     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2494-4     Document Type: Article

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