Impact of tropical SST on stratospheric planetary waves in the southern hemisphere

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5030-5046

  Lin, Pu ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Planetary waves; Regression analysis; Stationary waves; Stratophere troposphere coupling; Stratospheric circulation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRAL SPRING; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; EXTRATROPICAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; PLANETARY WAVES; POSITIVE POLARITY; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SST ANOMALIES; STATIONARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; WAVE ACTIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; PLANETARY WAVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STANDING WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84862528070     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00378.1     Document Type: Article

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