Drivers of exceptionally cold North Atlantic Ocean temperatures and their link to the 2015 European heat wave

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Duchez, Aurélie ^a   Frajka Williams, Eleanor ^a   Josey, Simon A ^a   Evans, Dafydd G ^a   Grist, Jeremy P ^a   Marsh, Robert ^a   McCarthy, Gerard D ^a   Sinha, Bablu ^a   Berry, David I ^a   Hirschi, Joël J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2015 heat wave; Air sea fluxes; Cold Atlantic Ocean anomaly; North Atlantic; Ocean atmosphere interactions; Ocean variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; HEAT LOSSES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AIR SEA FLUX; ATLANTIC OCEAN; HEAT WAVES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; HEAT WAVE; JET STREAM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STANDING WAVE; UPWELLING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84979997577     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074004     Document Type: Article

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