The North Pacific as a regular of summertime climate over Eurasia and North America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 819-833

  Lau, William K M ^a   Lee, J Y ^b   Kim, K M ^c   Kang, I S ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DATA REDUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BRIDGE; BOREAL SUMMER; EXTRATROPICAL OCEANS; LOW-LEVEL STATIONARY ANTICYCLONE; NORTH PACIFIC INDEX (NPI); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUMMERTIME CLIMATE; TRANSIENT-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 1842428813     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0819:TNPAAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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