On anomalous ocean heat transport toward the Arctic and associated climate predictability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 689-704

  Årthun, Marius ^a   Eldevik, Tor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Circulation Dynamics; Climate models; Climate prediction; Decadal variability; Models and modeling; Ocean circulation; Physical meteorology and climatology; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; ENTHALPY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84957827932     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0448.1     Document Type: Article

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