Recent abnormal changes in wintertime atmospheric response to tropical SST forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 783-786

  Kawamura, Ryuichi ^a   Sugi, Masato ^b   Kayahara, Takahiro ^a   Sato, Nobuo ^c  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; MECHANICAL WAVES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); HEAT CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MARITIME CONTINENT; PACIFIC/NORTH AMERICAN TELECONNECTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; WALKER CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS (ENSO); ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) FORCING; WALTER WAVES;

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC/NORTH AMERICAN PATTERN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

EID: 0031109660     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00688     Document Type: Article

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