Linearity of the atmospheric response to North Atlantic SST and sea ice anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1986-2003

  Conil, Sébastien ^a,b   Li, Laurent Z X ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 24644498067     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3388.1     Document Type: Article

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