Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 3299-3308

  Xue, Daokai ^a   Lu, Jian ^b   Sun, Lantao ^c,d   Chen, Gang ^e   Zhang, Yaocun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic amplification; extreme weather; local wave activity; sea ice melting

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECTS; EXTREME WEATHER; FINITE AMPLITUDE WAVES; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LOCAL WAVE; SEA ICE MELTING; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

ICE;

AMPLIFICATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; MELTING; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING; WAVE ACTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; EURASIA; KARA SEA;

EID: 85017474301     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072649     Document Type: Article

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