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...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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