Recent trends in winter temperature extremes in eastern China and their relationship with the Arctic Oscillation and ENSO

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1712-1724

  Chen, Shangfeng ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Wei, Ke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

AO; East Asian Winter Monsoon; ENSO; winter temperature extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886911659     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2296-8     Document Type: Article

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