Tropical and stratospheric influences on extratropical short-term climate variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4326-4347

  Newman, Matthew ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER LEVELS;

ANNUAL CYCLES; ARABIAN SEA; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE-VARIABILITY; DIABATIC HEATING; EIGEN-MODES; EVOLUTION OPERATORS; EXTERNAL-; EXTRATROPICAL; FORCINGS; INVERSE MODELING; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLAR REGIONS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC EFFECTS; TROPICAL FORCING; TROPOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DIABATIC PROCESS; EIGENVALUE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR REGION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STOCHASTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 37549033691     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2118.1     Document Type: Article

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