An observational analysis: Tropical relative to Arctic influence on midlatitude weather in the era of Arctic amplification

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5287-5294

  Cohen, Judah ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic amplification; climate trends; climate variability

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE TRENDS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EXTREME WEATHER; INTRA-SEASONAL; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TROPICAL FORCING;

TROPICS;

EID: 84970006836     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069102     Document Type: Article

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