Reconsideration of the true versus apparent Arctic Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2047-2062

  Itoh, Hisanori ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CORRELATION METHODS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; KETONES; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE; WATER LEVELS;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ARCTIC OSCILLATION (AO); ATLANTIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF) ANALYSIS; IN PHASE (IP); INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (MSLP); NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE (NAM); PHYSICAL REALITY; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; REAL WORLD; SPATIAL CORRELATION (SC); TIME COEFFICIENTS; VARIATIONS OF;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 45349085035     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2167.1     Document Type: Article

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