Cooling of the wintertime Arctic stratosphere induced by the western Pacific teleconnection pattern

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a   Orsolini, Yvan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING FLOW; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; MEAN PRESSURES; PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR STRATOSPHERE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

TROPOSPHERE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; STRATOSPHERE; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

ARCTIC; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77954671933     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043551     Document Type: Article

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