Harmonious inter-decadal changes of July-August upper tropospheric temperature across the North Atlantic, Eurasian continent, and North Pacific

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 656-665

  Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Harmonious changes; Inter decadal variability; Tropospheric temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849126387     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9020-8     Document Type: Article

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