North Atlantic winter climate regimes: Spatial asymmetry, stationarity with time, and oceanic forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1055-1068

  Cassou, Christophe ^a,b   Terray, Laurent ^a   Hurrell, James W ^b   Deser, Clara ^b  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE; TROPICS; WEATHERING;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 1842790787     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1055:NAWCRS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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