Interdecadal relationships between the Asian-Pacific oscillation and summer climate anomalies over Asia, North Pacific, and North America during a recent 100 years

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4793-4799

  Zhao, Ping ^a   Yang, Song ^b   Wang, Huijun ^c   Zhang, Qiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Interdecadal variability; Large scale motions; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERDECADAL; LARGE-SCALE MOTIONS; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NORTH PACIFIC; SOUTH ASIA; SUMMER CLIMATE; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY;

TROPOSPHERE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MOISTURE TRANSFER; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80053126749     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00054.1     Document Type: Article

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