Shifts of seasons at the European mid-latitudes: Natural fluctuations correlated with the North Atlantic Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Paluš, Milan ^a   Novotná, Dagmar ^b   Tichavský, Petr ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

NATURAL FLUCTUATIONS; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; SHIFTS OF SEASONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PHENOLOGY; SEASON;

EID: 25844502471     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022838     Document Type: Article

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