The impact of ENSO and the Arctic Oscillation on winter temperature extremes in the southeast United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Lim, Young Kwon ^a   Schubert, Siegfried D ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MEAN TEMPERATURE; RETURN VALUE; SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PROBABILITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051719691     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048283     Document Type: Article

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