Arctic cut-off high drives the poleward shift of a new Greenland melting record

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tedesco, M ^a,b   Mote, T ^c   Fettweis, X ^d   Hanna, E ^e   Jeyaratnam, J ^f   Booth, J F ^f   Datta, R ^a,f,g   Briggs, K ^h  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC; CLIMATE; GREENLAND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATITUDE; MELTING POINT; MODEL; RUNOFF; SEA; SUMMER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84973598870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11723     Document Type: Article

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