Decadal-interdecadal climate variability over antarctica and linkages to the tropics: Analysis of ice core, instrumental, and tropical proxy data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7421-7441

  Okumura, Yuko M ^a,b   Schneider, David ^b   Deser, Clara ^b   Wilson, Rob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Decadal variability; Interdecadal variability; Paleoclimate; Teleconnections; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; PALEOCLIMATES; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TROPICS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DECADAL VARIATION; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TELECONNECTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84865199074     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00050.1     Document Type: Article

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