The impact of the annual cycle on the North Pacific/North American response to remote low-frequency forcing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1336-1353

  Newman, Matthew ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

LINEAR BAROTROPIC MODELS; REMOTE LOW FREQUENCY FORCINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; LOW FREQUENCY; ROSSBY WAVE;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0032052927     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<1336:TIOTAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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