The lower-stratospheric response to 11-Yr solar forcing: Coupling to the tropospheretd-Ocean response

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1841-1864

  Hood, Lon L ^a   Soukharev, Boris E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate change; ENSO; Ozone; Solar cycle; Stratophere troposphere coupling

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; EDDY HEAT FLUXES; ENSO; HADLEY CIRCULATION; LOWERMOST STRATOSPHERE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR FORCING; SOLAR MAXIMA; SOLAR VARIABILITY; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; SURFACE CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE DATA; TIME-PERIODS; WINTER SEASONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; LINEAR REGRESSION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SEA LEVEL; SOLAR ENERGY; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; HEAT FLUX; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOLAR CYCLE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84863936180     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-086.1     Document Type: Article

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