Extreme climate of the global troposphere and stratosphere in 1940-42 related to El Niño

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7011, 2004, Pages 971-974

  Bronnlmann S ^a,b   Luterbacher, J ^c   Staehelin, J ^a   Svendby, T M ^d   Hansen, G ^e   Svenoe, T ^f  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS; MID-LATITUDE SITES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; EXTREME EVENT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EL NINO; HISTORY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION PHENOMENON; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 7244226508     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02982     Document Type: Article

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