Investigating the impact of reemerging sea surface temperature anomalies on the winter atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3510-3526

  Cassou, Christophe ^a,b   Deser, Clara ^b   Alexander, Michael A ^c  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROTROPIC MODE; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34250878524     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4202.1     Document Type: Article

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