Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 398-403

  Ding, Qinghua ^a   Steig, Eric J ^a   Battisti, David S ^a   Küttel, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; OZONE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ELLSWORTH LAND; MARIE BYRD LAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79957823807     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1129     Document Type: Article

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