Factors associated with decadal variability in great plains summertime surface temperatures

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 343-350

  Weaver, Scott J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; LOW LEVEL JET; MODELING STUDIES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGIONAL WARMING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WORKING GROUPS;

CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84872933448     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00713.1     Document Type: Article

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