A Regime View of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Its Response to Anthropogenic Forcing

The distribution of the daily wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index in the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) is significantly negatively skewed. Dynamical and statistical analyses both suggest that this skewness reects the presence of two distinct regimes-referred to as "Greenland bl...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Woollings, T, Hannachi, A, Hoskins, B, Turner, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010