Atmospheric responses to North Atlantic SST anomalies in idealized experiments. Part II: North American precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 659-671

  Hu, Qi ^a   Veres, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation Dynamics; Climate variability; Physical meteorology and climatology; Precipitation; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; WARM SEASON PRECIPITATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84957828012     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00751.1     Document Type: Article

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