The transient and equilibrium climate response to rapid summertime sea ice loss in CCSM4

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 401-417

  Blackport, Russell ^a   Kushner, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA ICE; STATISTICS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; INITIAL CONDITION ENSEMBLES; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE CORE; ICE COVER; SEA ICE; SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84957798975     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0284.1     Document Type: Article

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