North Atlantic climate variability: Phenomena, impacts and mechanisms

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 1863-1898

  Marshall, John ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^b   Battisti, David ^c   Chang, Ping ^d   Czaja, Arnaud ^a   Dickson, Robert ^e   Hurrell, James ^f   McCartney, Michael ^g   Saravanan, R ^f   Visbeck, Martin ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Interannual time scale; North atlantic oscillation

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATIC IMPACTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035714103     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.693     Document Type: Article

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