The impact of regional Arctic sea ice loss on atmospheric circulation and the NAO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 889-902

  Pedersen, Rasmus A ^a   Cvijanovic, Ivana ^b   Langen, Peter L ^c   Vinther, Bo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation Dynamics; General circulation models; Geographic location entity; Models and modeling; North Atlantic Oscillation; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; LOCATION; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE COVER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84957831236     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0315.1     Document Type: Article

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