Temperature and wind climate of the Antarctic Peninsula as simulated by a high-resolution Regional Atmospheric Climate Model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7306-7326

  Van Wessem, Jan Melchior ^a   Reijmer, Carleen H ^a   Van De Berg, Willem Jan ^a   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^a   Cook, Alison J ^b   Van Ulft, Lambertus H ^c   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climatology; Ice sheets; Radiosonde observations; Regional models; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; RADIOSONDES; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ANTARCTICA; ICE SHEET; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; REGIONAL MODEL; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE SHEET; RADIOSONDE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WIND FORCING;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84956940543     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0060.1     Document Type: Article

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