Temperature decrease in the extratropics of South America in response to a tropical forcing during the austral winter

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Muller G V ^a  

^a Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de Diamante   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Climatology; General circulation; Middle atmosphere dynamics)

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; TELECONNECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

ARGENTINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 76649140085     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-1-2010     Document Type: Article

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