Persistent cold climatic episodes around Greenland and Baffin Island: Links to decadal-scale sea surface temperature anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3971-3974

  Rogers, Jeffrey C ^a   Wang, Chung Chieh ^a   McHugh, Maurice J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAFFIN ISLAND; GREENLAND; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

COLD AIR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0032216253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900050     Document Type: Article

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