Multitemporal climate variability over the Atlantic Ocean and Eurasia: Linkages with Mediterranean and West African climate

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 196-201

  Paz, Shlomit ^a   Tourre, Yves M ^b,d   Brolley, Justin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MEDIAS France   (France)

^c EQECAT Inc   (United States)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO); Mediterranean climate; North Africa West Asia (NAWA) index; Polar vortex oscillation (PVO); Sahelian rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POLAR VORTEX; RAINFALL; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA;

EID: 60149099933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.181     Document Type: Article

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