Surface temperature gradients as diagnostic indicators of midlatitude circulation dynamics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4154-4171

  Karamperidou, Christina ^a   Cioffi, Francesco ^b   Lall, Upmanu ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; COLDER CLIMATE; DIAGNOSTIC AIDS; DIAGNOSTIC INDICATORS; ENSO MODELS; FORCINGS; INTERANNUAL; JET STREAMS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOW ORDER MODELS; MIDLATITUDES; MULTISTABLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SECULAR TREND; SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARMING;

EID: 84865190594     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00067.1     Document Type: Article

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