Atmospheric responses to North Atlantic SST anomalies in idealized experiments. Part I: Northern hemispheric circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6204-6220

  Veres, Michael ^a   Hu, Qi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric; Atmospheric circulation; Continental forcing; Numerical analysis modeling; Orographic effects; Sea surface temperature; Waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONTINENTAL FORCING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84942912483     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00413.1     Document Type: Article

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