Ocean science: Atlantic Ocean forcing of North American and European summer climate

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5731, 2005, Pages 115-118

  Sutton, Rowan T ^a   Hodson, Daniel L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; HEAT WAVES; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; OCEAN SCIENCE;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE FORCING; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 21644449084     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109496     Document Type: Article

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30. R.T.S. is supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. D.L.R.H. is supported by the NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science. We are grateful to colleagues at the Met Office Hadley Centre for providing the HadISST and HadSLP data sets and results from the C20 global SST experiments. We thank J. Hurrell for valuable comments on the paper.