Multi-year predictability of the tropical Atlantic atmosphere driven by the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Dunstone, N J ^a   Smith, D M ^a   Eade, R ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CONVERGENCE ZONES; HIGH LATITUDES; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL STORMS; WIND SHEARS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GYRE; HURRICANE EVENT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 79960770060     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047949     Document Type: Article

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