Linkages between the North Pacific Oscillation and central tropical Pacific SSTs at low frequencies

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2833-2846

  Furtado, Jason C ^a,b   Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^a   Anderson, Bruce T ^c   Schneider, Niklas ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Modes of climate variability; North Pacific climate; North Pacific Oscillation; Pacific decadal variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84869488554     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1245-4     Document Type: Article

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