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dc.contributor.author	Abbot, Dorian S.
dc.contributor.author	Tziperman, Eli
dc.date.accessioned	2009-12-14T17:53:46Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	Abbot, Dorian S., and Eli Tziperman. 2008. Sea ice, high latitude convection, and equable climates. Geophysical Research Letters 35(L03702): 1-5.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0094-8276	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3444549
dc.description.abstract	It is argued that deep atmospheric convection might occur during winter in ice-free high-latitude oceans, and that the surface radiative warming effects of the clouds and water vapor associated with this winter convection could keep high-latitude oceans ice-free through polar night. In such an ice-free high-latitude ocean the annual-mean SST would be much higher and the seasonal cycle would be dramatically reduced - making potential implications for equable climates manifest. The constraints that atmospheric heat transport, ocean heat transport, and CO2 concentration place on this mechanism are established. These ideas are investigated using the NCAR column model, which has state-of-the-art atmospheric physics parameterizations, high vertical resolution, a full seasonal cycle, a thermodynamic sea ice model, and a mixed layer ocean.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Earth and Planetary Sciences	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	American Geophysical Union	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL032286	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/reprints/Abbot-Tziperman-2008a.pdf
dash.license	META_ONLY
dc.title	Sea Ice, High-Latitude Convection, and Equable Climates	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Geophysical Research Letters	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Tziperman, Eli
dash.embargo.until	10000-01-01

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