Stratospheric polar vortex influence on Northern Hemisphere winter climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Douville, H ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POLAR VORTEX; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL FORECASTS; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR VORTEX; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 72149094578     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039334     Document Type: Article

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