Winter climate extremes over the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada and teleconnections with large-scale modes of climate variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2475-2493

  Ning, Liang ^a   Bradley, Raymond S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; El Nino; ENSO; Extreme events; North atlantic oscillation; Pacific north american pattern oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EL NINO; ENSO; EXTREME EVENTS; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926040301     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00750.1     Document Type: Article

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