Atmospheric impact of arctic sea ice loss in a coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 9606-9622

  Petrie, Ruth E ^a   Shaffrey, Len C ^a   Sutton, Rowan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation Dynamics; Geographic location entity; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; ICE; METEOROLOGY; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; GYRE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84957655663     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0316.1     Document Type: Article

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