Eurasian winter cooling in the warming hiatus of 1998-2012

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 8131-8139

  Li, Chao ^a,b   Stevens, Bjorn ^b   Marotzke, Jochem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

warming hiatus; winter cooling

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WARMING HIATUS; WINTER COOLING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COOLING; DATA SET; HIATUS; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA;

EID: 84947032694     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065327     Document Type: Review

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