The pacemaker of major climate shifts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Wane, Geli ^a   Swanson, Kyle L ^b   Tsonis, Anastasios A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SHIFTS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; MODELING STUDIES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; SYNCHRONOUS STATE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SYNCHRONY;

EID: 67449113249     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036874     Document Type: Article

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