Key role of the North Pacific oscillation-West Pacific pattern in generating the extreme 2013/14 North American Winter

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8109-8117

  Baxter, Stephen ^a   Nigam, Sumant ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Climate variability; ENSO; Mathematical and statistical techniques; North Atlantic Oscillation; North Pacific Oscillation; Principal components analysis; Teleconnections; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947568298     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00726.1     Document Type: Article

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