The Wintertime wind stress curl field in the north atlantic and its relation to atmospheric teleconnection patterns

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1687-1694

  Sugimoto, Shusaku ^a   Hanawa, Kimio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal function; Teleconnections; Wind stress; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; EASTERN SIDE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MAXIMUM COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WESTERN SIDE; WIND STRESS CURL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND STRESS; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77955584234     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3339.1     Document Type: Article

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