The absence of an Atlantic imprint on the multidecadal variability of wintertime European temperature

The conspicuous absence of a North Atlantic sea surface temperature signature from western European temperature records remains an anomaly. Here, the authors show that this is due to a dynamic atmospheric circulation anomaly that suppresses the expected thermodynamic response.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ayako Yamamoto, Jaime B. Palter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10930