Winter-to-winter recurrence of sea surface temperature anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3835-3854

  Zhao, Xia ^a,b,c   Li, Jianping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HIGH LATITUDES; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TIMING DEVICES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MIXED LAYER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77958100574     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2583.1     Document Type: Article

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