Changes in atmospheric circulation over northern hemisphere oceans associated with the rapid warming of the 1920s

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 581-606

  Fu, Congbin ^a   Diaz, Henry F ^b   Dong, Dongfeng ^a   Fletcher, Joseph O ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early 20th century; North Atlantic; Northern hemisphere; Rapid climate change; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032866492     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199905)19:6<581::AID-JOC396>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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