Interactions between Global SST Anomalies and the Midlatitude Atmospheric Circulation

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-33

  Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FLUCTUATION; MIDLATITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES;

EID: 0030869086     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0021:IBGSAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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