Northern Hemispheric trends of pressure indices and atmospheric circulation patterns in observations, reconstructions, and coupled GCM simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3968-3982

  Raible, C C ^a   Stocker, T F ^a   Yoshimori, M ^a   Renold, M ^a   Beyerle, U ^a   Casty, C ^a   Luterbacher, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN VARIABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 27944488731     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3511.1     Document Type: Article

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