Precipitation and Northern Hemisphere regimes

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 43-55

  Raible, Christoph C ^a   Luksch, Ute ^b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circulation regimes; Decadal variability; El Nino Southern Oscillation North Atlantic Oscillation connection; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 4143114651     PISSN: 1530261X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmoscilet.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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