Ocean-Atmosphere State Dependence of the Atmospheric Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1537-1552

  Osborne, Joe M ^a   Screen, James A ^a   Collins, Mat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DECADAL TIMESCALE; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PREDICTION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85014035071     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0531.1     Document Type: Article

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