Granger causality of coupled climate processes: Ocean feedback on the North Atlantic Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1182-1194

  Mosedale, Timothy J ^a   Stephenson, David B ^a   Collins, Matthew ^b   Mills, Terence C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PROCESSES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN FEEDBACK; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33646364317     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3653.1     Document Type: Article

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