Influence of the North Atlantic SST on the atmospheric circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2969-2972

  Czaja, Arnaud ^a   Frankignoul, Claude ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; CLIMATOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOMINANT MODE; HEAT EXCHANGE; LABRADOR SEA; NEWFOUNDLANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SST ANOMALIES;

EID: 0033208564     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900613     Document Type: Article

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