Air temperature impacts over Eastern North America and Europe associated with low-frequency North Atlantic SST variability

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Arguez, Anthony ^a,c   O'Brien, James J ^b   Smith, Shawn R ^b  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NCDC CAB 514 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

AMO; AO; NAO; North Atlantic; SST; Temperature impacts

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

AMO; AO; NAO; NORTH ATLANTIC; SST; TEMPERATURE IMPACTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61749087722     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1700     Document Type: Article

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