Stochastic forcing of north tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures by the North Atlantic Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2126-2132

  Penland, Cécile ^a   Hartten, Leslie M ^a,b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic SST; North Atlantic Oscillation; Stochastic Forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ATLANTIC SST; BOREAL WINTERS; LINEAR INVERSE MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STOCHASTIC FORCING; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FORCING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84896413817     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059252     Document Type: Article

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