Northern Hemisphere teleconnection patterns during extreme phases of the zonal-mean circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2614-2633

  Ting, Mingfang ^a   Hoerling, Martin P ^b   Xu, Taiyi ^b   Kumar, Arun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; ENSO; WIND;

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION PATTERN; ZONAL INDEX;

EID: 0030404936     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2614:NHTPDE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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