Are North Atlantic multidecadal SST anomalies westward propagating?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 541-546

  Feng, Qing Yi ^a   Dijkstra, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; climate networks; conditional Hamming distance; mutual information; Pearson correlation; westward propagation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HAMMING DISTANCE; TOPOLOGY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; COMPLEX NETWORK MODELS; MUTUAL INFORMATION MEASURES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PEARSON CORRELATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DATA SET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TOPOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84892644795     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058687     Document Type: Article

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