How weather impacts the forced climate response

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2389-2416

  Kirtman, Ben P ^a,c   Schneider, Edwin K ^b,c   Straus, David M ^b,c   Min, Dughong ^a   Burgman, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Weather noise

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPOTENTIAL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 81455135464     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1084-3     Document Type: Article

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