The missing Northern European winter cooling response to Arctic sea ice loss

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Screen, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE; WINTER;

ADVECTION; ARCTIC; COLD STRESS; COOLING; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; WINTER;

NORTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 85014628117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14603     Document Type: Article

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