Tropical American-Atlantic forcing of austral summertime variability in the southern annular mode

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 943-947

  Yu, Bin ^a   Lin, Hai ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forcing mechanism; Southern annular mode; Trend and variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; TREND AND VARIABILITY; TROPICAL FORCING;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL REVIEW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; EDDY; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876815532     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50231     Document Type: Article

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