Role of the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature in the decadal change of the summer North Atlantic Oscillation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Sun, Jianqi ^a,b   Wang, Huijun ^a,b   Yuan, Wei ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ABRUPT CHANGE; DECADAL CHANGE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONVECTION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 72049105040     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012395     Document Type: Article

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