Changes in the variability of North Pacific Oscillation around 1975/1976 and its relationship with East Asian winter climate

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Chen, Wen ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STANDING WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34548063557     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD008054     Document Type: Article

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