The absence of an Atlantic imprint on the multidecadal variability of wintertime European temperature

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yamamoto, Ayako ^a   Palter, Jaime B ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; IMPRINTING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMODYNAMICS; WINTER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; EUROPEAN; HEAT EXCHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WINTER; ANALYSIS; EUROPE; METEOROLOGY; NORTH SEA; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE;

SEA WATER;

ATMOSPHERE; EUROPE; METEOROLOGY; NORTH SEA; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84962254370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10930     Document Type: Article

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