An interaction network perspective on the relation between patterns of sea surface temperature variability and global mean surface temperature

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Tantet, A ^a   Dijkstra, H A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84893449915     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-5-1-2014     Document Type: Article

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