Meridional and vertical out-of-phase relationships of temperature anomalies associated with the Northern Annular Mode variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Ren, R C ^a   Cai, Ming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EQUATORWARD PROPAGATION; INTRA-SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTION; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE VARIABILITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; POLAR REGION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34250693684     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028729     Document Type: Article

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