The relationship between the North Atlantic jet and tropical convection over the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6100-6113

  Yuan, Jiacan ^a   Feldstein, Steven B ^b   Lee, Sukyoung ^b   Tan, Benkui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraseasonal variability; Jets; North Atlantic oscillations; Pattern detection; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; CIRCUMGLOBAL TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; COLD AIR; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERDECADAL; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PATTERN CORRELATION; PATTERN DETECTION; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REANALYSIS; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; WESTERN PACIFIC; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL DETECTION; JETS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COLD AIR; DECADAL VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; JET STREAM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 83755178213     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4203.1     Document Type: Article

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