Disappearance of the southeast U.S. "warming hole" with the late 1990s transition of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5564-5570

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^a,b   Chung, Christine T Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation; warming hole

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE HEATING; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING HOLE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; HEATING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84938151908     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064586     Document Type: Article

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