Wintertime atmospheric response to Atlantic multidecadal variability: effect of stratospheric representation and ocean–atmosphere coupling

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 1029-1047

  Peings, Yannick ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal variability; Cold extremes; Decadal forecasting; Jet stream; North Atlantic Oscillation; Ocean atmosphere feedback; Rossby waves; Stratosphere troposphere coupling; Teleconnection

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DECADAL VARIATION; JET STREAM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA ICE; STRATOSPHERE; TELECONNECTION; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84945551638     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2887-4     Document Type: Article

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