A comparison of decadal-to-interdecadal variability and trend in reanalysis datasets using atmospheric angular momentum

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4750-4758

  Paek, Houk ^a   Huang, Huei Ping ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Climate records; Climate variability; Decadal variability; Interdecadal variability; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; TROPOSPHERE;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84865172602     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00358.1     Document Type: Article

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