Observed Antarctic interannual climate variability and tropical linkages

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4048-4066

  Schneider, David P ^a   Okumura, Yuko ^a   Deser, Clara ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CLIMATE; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTIC STATIONS; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; AUSTRAL SPRING; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE LINKAGES; COASTAL STATION; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DEEP CONVECTION; EDDY MOMENTUM FLUX; ENSO EVENTS; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUBTROPICAL JET; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE DATA; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ICE CORE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84859153199     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00273.1     Document Type: Review

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