A mechanism for lagged North Atlantic climate response to solar variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 434-439

  Scaife, Adam A ^a   Ineson, Sarah ^a   Knight, Jeff R ^a   Gray, Lesley ^b   Kodera, Kunihiko ^c   Smith, Doug M ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE RESPONSE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; IRRADIANCE; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84874820746     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50099     Document Type: Article

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