Atmospheric patterns forcing two regimes of Arctic circulation: A return to anticyclonic conditions?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1621-1624

  Johnson, Mark A ^a   Proshutinsky, Andrey Y ^a   Polyakov, Igor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; NORTH POLE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

EID: 0033153604     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900288     Document Type: Article

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