Stochastic atmospheric forcing as a cause of Greenland climate transitions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7741-7763

  Kleppin, Hannah ^a   Jochum, Markus ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^b   Shields, Christine A ^b   Yeager, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate models; Paleoclimate; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FEEDBACK; ICE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLES; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; PALEOCLIMATES; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GYRE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84947725967     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00728.1     Document Type: Article

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