Blocking variability: Arctic Amplification versus Arctic Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8586-8595

  Hassanzadeh, Pedram ^a   Kuang, Zhiming ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Amplification; Arctic Oscillation; atmospheric blocking; climate change; climate variability; extreme weather

Indexed keywords

EXTREME WEATHER; FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; LOW-FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; JET STREAM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84946605849     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065923     Document Type: Article

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