Has a warm North Atlantic contributed to recent European cold winters?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Keenlyside, Noel ^a   Omrani, Nour Eddine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMV; climate change; winter climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING;

AMV; ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; GAS CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WINTER CLIMATE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WESTERLY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE;

EID: 84903639521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/061001     Document Type: Review

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