The North Atlantic Oscillation - What Role for the Ocean?

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-100

  Sutton, Rowan T ^a   Norton, Warwick A ^b   Jewson, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Ocean atmosphere interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142589196     PISSN: 1530261X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/asle.2000.0018     Document Type: Article

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