Teleconnective response of the Pacific-North American region atmosphere to large central equatorial Pacific SST anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1787-1820

  Livezey, Robert E ^a   Masutani, Michiko ^b   Leetmaa, Ants ^a   Rui, Hualan ^b   Ji, Ming ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN OSCILLATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTIONS;

EID: 0031200766     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1787:TROTPN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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