Relation between large-scale circulation and european winter temperature: Does it hold under warmer climate?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3752-3760

  Goubanova, K ^a,b   Li, L ^a   Yiou, P ^c   Codron, F ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOCAL CLIMATE; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; LOCAL VARIABLES; SMALL SCALE; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WEATHER REGIMES;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; WINTER;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955478684     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3166.1     Document Type: Article

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