Teleconnection between the central tropical Pacific and the Antarctic stratosphere: spatial patterns and time lags

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1841-1855

  Evtushevsky, O M ^a   Kravchenko, V O ^a   Hood, L L ^b   Milinevsky, G P ^a  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic stratosphere; Central tropical Pacific; Lagged correlation; Teleconnection; Temperature; Total ozone content; Zonal wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925508191     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2375-2     Document Type: Article

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