Regional co-variability and teleconnection patterns in surface solar radiation on a planetary scale

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2314-2329

  Papadimas, C D ^a,b   Fotiadi, A K ^a,c   Hatzianastassiou, N ^a,b   Vardavas, I ^b,c   Bartzokas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate change; Factor analysis; North Atlantic Oscillation; Southern Oscillation; Surface solar radiation

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE PARAMETERS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLOUD COVER; DESERT AREA; DOWNWARD SOLAR RADIATION; EARTH'S SURFACE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FACTOR SCORES; GLOBAL DIMMING/BRIGHTENING; GLOBAL SCALE; GRID POINTS; INPUT DATAS; KEY PARAMETERS; MIDDLE EAST; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEANIC AREA; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLANETARY SCALE; RADIATION TRANSFER MODEL; REANALYSIS; REMOTE PLACES; SOLAR RADIATION VARIABILITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM TRACK; SUB-AREAS; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WARMING; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TOTAL VARIANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH (PLANET); MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPORATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 78649579098     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2031     Document Type: Article

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