Is the observed NAO variability during the instrumental record unusual?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Semenov, Vladimir A ^a,b   Latif, Mojib ^a   Jungclaus, Johann H ^c   Park, Wonsun ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDARDS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EXTERNAL FORCING; LOW FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; MODEL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; RANGE CONTROL; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SCALING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 49849099164     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033273     Document Type: Article

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