Local versus tropical diabatic heating and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2058-2075

  Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Jung, Thomas ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DIABATIC HEATING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIABATIC PROCESS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEATING; LA NINA; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34250673499     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4125.1     Document Type: Article

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