Potential impact of the Eurasian boreal forest on North Pacific climate variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 981-992

  Notaro, Michael ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION; WIND;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FOREST COVER; WIND VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADVECTION; ALBEDO; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE VARIATION; JET FLOW; JET STREAM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; FORESTS; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

EURASIA; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34147106606     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4052.1     Document Type: Article

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