A stratospheric influence on the winter NAO and North Atlantic surface climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Scaife, Adam A ^a   Knight, Jeff R ^a   Vallis, Geoff K ^b   Folland, Chris K ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLOBAL MEAN WARMING; SURFACE CLIMATE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27744570977     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023226     Document Type: Article

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