El niño flavors and their simulated impacts on atmospheric circulation in the high Southern latitudes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8934-8955

  Wilson, Aaron B ^a   Bromwich, David H ^b   Hines, Keith M ^a   Wang, Sheng Hung ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CAMS; CLIMATOLOGY; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MECHANICAL WAVES; METEOROLOGY; NICKEL; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; STATIONARY WAVE PATTERNS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVERGENCE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84919663654     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00296.1     Document Type: Article

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