Contribution of the sea surface temperature over the Mediterranean-Black Sea to the decadal shift of the summer North Atlantic Oscillation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 717-726

  Sun, Jianqi ^a,b   Yuan, Wei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; Mediterranean Black Sea; Sea surface temperature; Summer North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849117244     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8210-8     Document Type: Article

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