Asian origin of interannual variations of summer climate over the extratropical North Atlantic ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6594-6609

  Zhao, Ping ^a   Yang, Song ^b   Wu, Renguang ^c   Wen, Zhiping ^d   Chen, Junming ^e   Wang, Huijun ^f  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate variability; Interannual variability; North Atlantic Ocean; Sea surface temperature; Summer warm season

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUMMER/WARM SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867663408     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00617.1     Document Type: Article

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