Observational evidence of a warm ocean current preceding a winter teleconnection pattern in the northwestern Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Hirose, Naoki ^a   Nishimura, Kazuya ^b   Yamamoto, Masaru ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION PROCESS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CORRELATION PATTERNS; EXTRATROPICAL OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LEAD-LAG; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WARM OCEAN; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENTS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WARM WATER; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); SEA OF JAPAN; TSUSHIMA CURRENT;

EID: 68249156608     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037448     Document Type: Article

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