Simulation of North Atlantic decadal/multidecadal winter SST anomalies driven by basin-scale atmospheric circulation anomalies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-21

  Halliwell Jr , George R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031960859     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0005:SONADM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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