Large-scale anomaly patterns associated to temperature variability inside Scarisoara Ice Cave

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1495-1502

  Rimbu, N ^a,b   Onac, B P ^c,d   Racovita, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b Climed Norad   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Large scale anomaly patterns; Scarisoara Ice Cave; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANOMALY PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ICE BLOCKS; ROMANIA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CAVES;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); BIHOR; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCARISOARA ICE CAVE;

EID: 84864135806     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2369     Document Type: Article

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