North Pacific-North Atlantic relationships under stratospheric control?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Castanheira, J M ^a   Graf, H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annular modes; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STRATOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 0345975871     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002754     Document Type: Article

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