Eddies and the annular modes of climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3133-3136

  Limpasuvan, Varavut ^a   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0033569086     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010478     Document Type: Article

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