The importance of sea ice area biases in 21st century multimodel projections of Antarctic temperature and precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 10832-10839

  Bracegirdle, Thomas J ^a,c   Stephenson, David B ^b   Turner, John ^a   Phillips, Tony ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c NCAS Climate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic; climate; CMIP5; emergent constraint; sea ice; surface mass balance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ICE; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC; CLIMATE; CMIP5; EMERGENT CONSTRAINT; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MASS BALANCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84955172752     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067055     Document Type: Article

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