Tropical connections to climatic change in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere: The role of atlantic SST trends

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4923-4936

  Simpkins, Graham R ^a   McGregor, Shayne ^a   Taschetto, Andréa S ^a   Ciasto, Laura M ^b   England, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate models; Climate variability; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC SEA; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICS; SEA SURFACES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 84903398792     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-13-00615.1     Document Type: Article

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