The surface climate response to 11-yr solar forcing during northern winter: Observational analyses and comparisons with GCM simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7489-7506

  Hood, Lon ^a   Schimanke, Semjon ^b   Spangehl, Thomas ^c   Bal, Sourabh ^d   Cubasch, Ulrich ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute   (Swaziland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d Dream Institute of Technology   (India)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; ENSO; Northern Hemisphere; Ozone; Solar cycle; Stratophere troposphere coupling

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ENSO; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOLAR CYCLE; STRATOPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLINGS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SEA LEVEL; SOLAR ENERGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OZONE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84884930515     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00843.1     Document Type: Article

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