The relationship between monthly and seasonal South-West England rainfall anomalies and concurrent North Atlantic sea surface temperatures

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 197-217

  Phillips, Ian D ^a   Mcgregor, Glenn R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field significance; Locally significant correlation; North Atlantic European domain; Rainfall; Sea surface temperatures; South west England; Stepwise regression

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SEASONAL FIELDS;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CORRELATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036475590     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.726     Document Type: Article

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