Behaviour of the centres of action above the Atlantic since 1881. Part II: Associations with regional climate anomalies

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-36

  Kapala, A ^a   Machel H ^a   Flohn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air and sea surface temperature; Atlantic Ocean; Azores high; Centres of action; Correlations; European; Heat flux, sensible and latent; Icelandic low; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Northeast Brazil; Rainfall; Regional climate anomalies; Sahel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002956529     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199801)18:1<23::AID-JOC226>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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