Abstract: Simulations of present-day Arctic climate are assessed from suites of 1) 13 global atmosphere-only models from the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP-II) and 2) 8 coupled atmosphere?ocean?ice models from the ...

Abstract: There were two major multiyear, Arctic-wide (60°?90°N) warm anomalies (>0.7°C) in land surface air temperature (LSAT) during the twentieth century, between 1920 and 1950 and again at the end of the century after 1979. ...

Abstract: The state-of-the-art AOGCM simulations have recently (late 2004?early 2005) been completed for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in order to provide input to the IPCC?s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). ...