Forcing of the wintertime atmospheric circulation by the multidecadal fluctuations of the North Atlantic ocean

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Peings, Yannick ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO); cold extreme weather; decadal predictability; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); North Atlantic weather regimes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; DECADAL PREDICTABILITY; EXTREME WEATHER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; WEATHER REGIMES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84897532916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034018     Document Type: Article

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