A description of interdecadal time-scale propagating North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies and their effect on winter European climate, 1948-2002

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1067-1079

  Sinha, Bablu ^a   Topliss, Brenda ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

LATENT HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBPOLAR GYRE BOUNDARY; SUBTROPICAL GYRE BOUNDARY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BASIN; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646381100     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3646.1     Document Type: Article

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