Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters?

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 586 PART B, 2002, Pages 2563-2586

  Seager, R ^a   Battisti, D S ^b   Yin, J ^b   Gordon, N ^a   Naik, N ^a   Clement, A C ^c   Cane, M A ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

European winters

Indexed keywords

AIR; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LATITUDES;

METEOROLOGY;

ADVECTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING; WIND; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 0346634894     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.128     Document Type: Article

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