The nonlinear association between the Arctic Oscillation and North American winter climate

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 865-879

  Wu, Aiming ^a   Hsieh, William W ^a   Shabbar, Amir ^b   Boer, George J ^c   Zwiers, Francis W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645986979     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0118-8     Document Type: Article

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