Modulation of the seasonal footprinting mechanism by the boreal spring Arctic Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6384-6389

  Chen, Shangfeng ^a,b   Chen, Wen ^a   Yu, Bin ^c   Graf, Hans F ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; El Ni o; seasonal footprinting mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; BOREAL SPRING; FOOTPRINTING; MODULATION EFFECTS; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH-EASTERN PACIFIC;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

MODULATION;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84892753287     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058628     Document Type: Article

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