The combined influences of autumnal snow and sea ice on Northern Hemisphere winters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3478-3485

  Furtado, J C ^a   Cohen, J L ^b   Tziperman, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular Mode; Arctic mid latitude teleconnections; Sub seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; SEA ICE; SNOW;

ANNULAR MODE; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

ICE;

EID: 84979465998     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068108     Document Type: Article

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