Observational evidence of the delayed response of stratospheric polar vortex variability to ENSO SST anomalies

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1345-1358

  Ren, R C ^a   Cai, Ming ^b   Xiang, Chunyi ^a,c   Wu, Guoxiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Delayed response; ENSO; Polar vortex variability

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR VORTEX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84859000005     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1137-7     Document Type: Article

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