Links between rossby wave breaking and the north atlantic oscillation-arctic oscillation in present-day and last glacial maximum climate simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2987-3008

  Riviére, Gwendal ^a   Laîné, Alexandre ^b   Lapeyre, Guillaume ^b   Salas Mélia, David ^a   Kageyama, Masa ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BAROCLINICITY; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EQUATORWARD SHIFT; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; PROJECT PHASE; ROSSBY WAVE; STORM TRACK; WAVEBREAKING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LIQUID WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; JET FLOW; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 77953601399     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3372.1     Document Type: Article

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