Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability

Ola M. Johannessen; Lennart Bengtsson; Martin W. Miles; Svetlana I. Kuzmina; Vladimir A. Semenov; Genrikh V. Alekseev; Andrei P. Nagurnyi; Victor F. Zakharov; Leonid P. Bobylev; Lasse H. Pettersson; Klaus Hasselmann; Howard P. Cattle

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v56i4.14418

Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability

Volume 56 (2004): Issue 4

By: Ola M. Johannessen, Lennart Bengtsson, Martin W. Miles, Svetlana I. Kuzmina, Vladimir A. Semenov, Genrikh V. Alekseev, Andrei P. Nagurnyi, Victor F. Zakharov, Leonid P. Bobylev, Lasse H. Pettersson, Klaus Hasselmann and Howard P. Cattle

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