Assessing the importance of prominent warm SST anomalies over the midlatitude north pacific in forcing large-scale atmospheric anomalies during 2011 summer and autumn

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3889-3903

  Okajima, Satoru ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b   Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Kuwano Yoshida, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; STORMS;

ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; FRONTAL ZONES; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST ANOMALIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; AUTUMN; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SUMMER; THERMODYNAMICS;

CANADA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901832849     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00140.1     Document Type: Article

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