The sensitivity of climate response to the wintertime Niño3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies of 1855-2002

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-32

  Bulić, Ivana Herceg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric response; NAE region; Tropical Pacific SST forcing: teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENSO EVENTS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; NAE REGION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SATURATION EFFECTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

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

EID: 84855330317     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2255     Document Type: Article

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