Impacts of multi-scale solar activity on climate. Part I: Atmospheric circulation patterns and climate extremes

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 867-886

  Weng, Hengyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

atmospheric circulations; climate extremes; dynamical amplifying mechanism; solar impacts on climate; surface thermal contrasts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862702377     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1238-1     Document Type: Article

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