Variations in North American summer precipitation driven by the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 5555-5570

  Hu, Qi ^a   Feng, Song ^a   Oglesby, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Multidecadal variability; Oscillations; Precipitation; Summer warm season

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY PATTERNS; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; COLD PHASIS; DECADAL TIMESCALE; ENSO; FORCINGS; FRONTAL ZONES; FUNDAMENTAL CONTROL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LOW PRESSURES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MODEL RESULTS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPPER-TROPOSPHERE FRONT; WARM AIR;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TROPOSPHERE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREAT PLAINS; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80755130503     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4060.1     Document Type: Article

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