Observed feedback between winter sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 6021-6032

  Strong, Courtenay ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a   Stern, Hal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARENTS SEA; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EVOLVING SYSTEMS; EXPECTED VALUES; GRANGER CAUSALITY; GREENLAND; GREENLAND SEA; INTERANNUAL; LABRADOR SEA; LOCAL MAXIMUM; NAO INDEX; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; POSITIVE POLARITY; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYNTHETIC DATA; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; WINTER SEA ICES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FEEDBACK; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

SEA ICE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; AUTOCORRELATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 77649308328     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3100.1     Document Type: Article

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