AO/NAO response to climate change: 2. Relative importance of low- and high-latitude temperature changes

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Rind, D ^a   Perlwitz, J ^a   Lonergan, P ^a,b   Lerner, J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b SGT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 23244434813     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005686     Document Type: Article

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