Intraseasonal Canadian winter temperature responses to interannual and interdecadal pacific SST modulations

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-121

  Shabbar, Amir ^a   Yu, Bin ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; autocorrelation; spectral analysis; generalized extreme value analysis; Extremes; Intraseasonal temperature; Temperature indices

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; WINTER;

CANADA;

EID: 84863857423     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2012.657154     Document Type: Article

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