Tropical origin for the impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability on the Euro-Atlantic climate

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Davini, Paolo ^a   Hardenberg, Jost Von ^a   Corti, Susanna ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV); Atmospheric blocking; Global Climate Models; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MECHANICAL WAVES; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; JET STREAM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84945242682     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094010     Document Type: Article

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