Arctic influence on subseasonal midlatitude prediction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3676-3680

  Jung, Thomas ^a   Kasper, Marta Anna ^a   Semmler, Tido ^a   Serrar, Soumia ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

prediction; teleconnections

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; EASTERN EUROPE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL DYNAMICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; GEOPOTENTIAL; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EASTERN EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84901385646     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059961     Document Type: Article

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