Recent amplification of the North American winter temperature dipole

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 9911-9928

  Singh, Deepti ^a,b   Swain, Daniel L ^a   Mankin, Justin S ^b,c   Horton, Daniel E ^a,d   Thomas, Leif N ^a   Rajaratnam, Bala ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84984679665     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025116     Document Type: Article

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