Persistent atmospheric and oceanic anomalies in the North Atlantic from summer 2009 to summer 2010

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5812-5830

  Hu, Zeng Zhen ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a   Huang, Bohua ^b,c   Xue, Yan ^a   Wang, Wanqiu ^a   Jha, Bhaskar ^a,d  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

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

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Atlantic Ocean; ENSO; Feedback; North Atlantic Oscillation; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENSO; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 83755207497     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4213.1     Document Type: Article

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