Regime-dependent nonstationary relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and North Pacific Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 8185-8204

  Pak, Gyundo ^a   Park, Young Hyang ^a   Vivier, Frederic ^a   Kwon, Young Oh ^b   Chang, Kyung Il ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Interannual variability; Interdecadal variability; North Pacific Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; MONSOON; OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

FAR EAST; KAMCHATKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84916207857     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00500.1     Document Type: Article

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