The potential connection between China surface air temperature and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) in the Pre-industrial Period

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1814-1826

  Li, ShuangLin ^a,c   Jing, YuanYuan ^a,b   Luo, FeiFei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b HeBei Climate Center   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

AMO; China surface air temperatures; the lead lagged connection; the reconstructed historical dataset

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

AMO; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE SYSTEMS; DECADAL VARIATIONS; HISTORICAL DATASET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; THE LEAD-LAGGED CONNECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CORRELATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84942984040     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: 18691897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-015-5091-9     Document Type: Article

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