The roles of external forcings and internal variabilities in the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation change from the 1960s to the 1990s

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6200-6220

  King, Martin P ^a   Kucharski, Fred ^b   Molteni, Franco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CIRCULATION CHANGES; DRIVING FACTORS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; FORCINGS; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; WINTER CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; RAIN; SEA ICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WINTER;

EID: 78650569651     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3239.1     Document Type: Article

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