The continuum of North Pacific sea level pressure patterns: Intraseasonal, interannual, and interdecadal variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 851-867

  Johnson, Nathaniel C ^a   Feldstein, Steven B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; ANOMALY PATTERNS; CLUSTER PATTERNS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERDECADAL; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; K-MEANS CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH PACIFIC; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; REANALYSIS; REGIME SHIFT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TIME-SCALES; WAVE TRAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; LOCOMOTIVES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RAILROAD CARS; SEA LEVEL;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77952211518     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3099.1     Document Type: Article

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