North atlantic SST anomalies and the cold north european weather events of winter 2009/10 and december 2010

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 922-932

  Buchan, Jian ^a   Hirschi, Joël J M ^a   Blaker, Adam T ^a   Sinha, Bablu ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84893837298     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00104.1     Document Type: Article

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