Relative impacts of snow and sea surface temperature anomalies on an extreme phase in the winter atmospheric circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2837-2857

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Nitta, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

EID: 0032216214     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2837:RIOSAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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