Does ocean coupling matter for the northern extratropical response to projected Arctic sea ice loss?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2149-2157

  Deser, Clara ^a   Sun, Lantao ^b   Tomas, Robert A ^a   Screen, James ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; climate response; Northern Annular Mode

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATE RESPONSE; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; JET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; WESTERLY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84959930210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067792     Document Type: Article

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