NAO implicated as a predictor of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature multidecadal variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5497-5502

  Li, Jianping ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; multidecadal variability; North Atlantic Oscillation; Northern Hemisphere mean surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84886023420     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057877     Document Type: Article

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