Rossby waves mediate impacts of tropical oceans on west Antarctic atmospheric circulation in austral winter

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8151-8164

  Li, Xichen ^a   Holland, David M ^b   Gerber, Edwin P ^b   Yoo, Changhyun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric; Circulation Dynamics; Decadal variability; Polar lows; Rossby waves; Teleconnections; Variability; Waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947594656     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0113.1     Document Type: Article

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