Atlantic Ocean influence on a shift in European climate in the 1990s

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 788-792

  Sutton, Rowan T ^a   Dong, Buwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATOSPHERE; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84868571248     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1595     Document Type: Article

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