Air temperature variations on the Atlantic-Arctic boundary since 1802

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Wood, Kevin R ^a   Overland, James E ^b   Jnsson, Trausti ^c   Smoliak, Brian V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES;

20TH CENTURY; AIR TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; EARLY 20; ICE CORE RECORDS; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; RECIRCULATION GYRE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE PROXY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956725160     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044176     Document Type: Article

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