Association of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures with the stratospheric Holton-Tan Oscillation in the Northern Hemisphere winter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Wei, Ke ^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; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HOLTON-TAN OSCILLATION; PLANETARY WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OSCILLATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 35948996151     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030478     Document Type: Article

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