Multidecadal modulations of the low-frequency climate variability in the wintertime North Pacific since 1950

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2948-2955

  Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b   Taguchi, Bunmei ^b   Nonaka, Masami ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aleutian Low; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; oceanic frontal zone; Pacific decadal variability; subtropical anticyclone

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

ALEUTIAN LOW; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; FRONTAL ZONES; MODULATED TEMPERATURE; PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBARCTIC FRONTAL ZONES; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE;

MODULATION;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBARCTIC REGION; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84899033937     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059696     Document Type: Article

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