Influence of modes of climate variability on global temperature extremes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3872-3889

  Kenyon, Jesse ^a   Hegerl, Gabriele C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATE-VARIABILITY; EURASIA; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; INTER-DECADAL; INTERDECADAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION PATTERNS; NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC RIM; REGIONAL PATTERNS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

EID: 53649102693     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2125.1     Document Type: Article

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