Stability of weather regimes during the last millennium from climate simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Yiou, Pascal ^a   Servonnat, Jérme ^a,b   Yoshimori, Masakazu ^c   Swingedouw, Didier ^a   Khodri, Myriam ^b   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE SIMULATION; FORCINGS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAIN MODE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES; OSCILLATING MODES; PAPER TESTS; POTENTIAL DEPENDENCE; PROXY RECORDS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WEATHER REGIMES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84861303025     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051310     Document Type: Article

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