The seasonality of the great plains low-level Jet and ENSO relationship

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4525-4544

  Krishnamurthy, Lakshmi ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,c   Msadek, Rym ^a,b   Wittenberg, Andrew ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a,c   Zeng, Fanrong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric circulation; Climate variability; Coupled models; ENSO; Seasonal variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; LANDFORMS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; ENSO; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

GREAT PLAINS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84950120469     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00590.1     Document Type: Article

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