Seasonal and Long-Term Coupling between Wintertime Storm Tracks and Sea Surface Temperature in the North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6123-6136

  Gan, Bolan ^a   Wu, lixin ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINICITY; LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS; MAXIMUM COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SHARP CONTRAST; SST ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84881622202     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00724.1     Document Type: Article

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