Mechanisms of stratospheric and tropospheric circulation response to projected Arctic sea ice loss

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7824-7845

  Sun, Lantao ^a   Deser, Clara ^b   Tomas, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atmospheric circulation; Climate models; Sea ice; Stratosphere; Stratosphere troposphere coupling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; WHOLE ATMOSPHERE COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84946546974     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0169.1     Document Type: Article

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