Decadal variability of the NAO: Introducing an augmented NAO index

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Y H ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a   Stern, H ^b   Tian, X ^b   Yu, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

20TH CENTURY; ARCTIC WARMING; CLIMATE INDEX; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; NAO INDEX; POSITIVE VALUE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84868621821     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053413     Document Type: Article

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