Comparing trends in the southern annular mode and surface westerly jet

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 8840-8859

  Swart, Neil C ^a   Fyfe, John C ^a   Gillett, Nathan ^a   Marshall, Gareth J ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Antarctic Oscillation; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Circulation Dynamics; Climate models; Geographic location entity; Jets; Models and modeling; Reanalysis data; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; JETS;

ANNULAR MODE; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; JET STREAM; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; WESTERLY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84949943935     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0334.1     Document Type: Article

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