Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

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

  • Ayako Yamamoto,
  • Jaime B. Palter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10930
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.