Diagnosis of anomalous winter temperatures over the eastern United States during the 2002/03 El Niño

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5624-5636

  Goddard, Lisa ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b   Hoerling, Martin P ^c   Barnston, Anthony G ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EL NINO; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751407734     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3930.1     Document Type: Article

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