Winter Northern Hemisphere surface air temperature variability associated with the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Wang, Chunzai ^b   Yang, Xiaoyi ^a   Lu, Jian ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION (AO); NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (NH); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE (SAT); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; WINTER;

EID: 26844562396     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022952     Document Type: Article

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