Efforts to improve predictions of urban winter heating anomalies using various climate indices

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 105-111

  Changnon, David ^a   Thompson, Jeff ^a   April, Tony ^a   Schmidt, Eric ^a   Falout, Mike ^a   Davis, Jon B ^b   Russo, Mark ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Salomon Smith Barney Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; HEATING DEGREE-DAYS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL PREDICTION; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042880018     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482702001111     Document Type: Article

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