The Arctic and Antarctic Oscillations and their projected changes under global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1601-1604

  Fyfe, J C ^a   Boer, G J ^a   Flato, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS;

GLOBAL WARMING; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; OSCILLATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HIGH LATITUDES; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0033153595     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900317     Document Type: Article

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