The forcing of Southwestern Asia teleconnections by low-frequency sea surface temperature variability during boreal winter

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1511-1526

  Hoell, Andrew ^a   Funk, Chris ^a   Barlow, Mathew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; RAIN; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LAND SURFACE HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WINTER;

AFGHANISTAN; IRAN; IRAQ; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84922794016     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00344.1     Document Type: Article

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