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Abarca del Rio, R., Gambis, D., Salstein, D. A., 2000: Interannual signals in length of day and atmospheric angular momentum Ann. Geophys., 18, 347-364.
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Adams, J. M., N. A. Bond, and J. E. Overland, 2000: Regional Variability of the Arctic Heat Budget in Fall and Winter J. Climate, 13, 3500-3510.
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Appenzeller C, Stocker TF, Anklin M, 1998: North Atlantic oscillation dynamics recorded in Greenland ice cores Science, 282, 446-449.
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Appenzeller, C., J. Schwander, S. Sommer, T. F. Stocker, 1998: The North Atlantic oscillation and its imprint on precipitation and ice accumulation in greenland. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1939-1942.
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Appenzeller C, Weiss AK, Staehelin J, 2000: North Atlantic oscillation modulates total ozone winter trends Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1131-1134.
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Arfeuille G, Mysak LA, Tremblay LB, 2000: Simulation of the interannual variability of the wind-driven Arctic sea-ice cover during 1958-1998 Clim. Dyn., 16, 107-121.
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Baldwin, M. P., and T. J. Dunkerton, 1999: Propagation of the Arctic Oscillation from the stratosphere to the troposphere. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 30 937-30 946.

Bresch DN, Davies HC, 2000: Covariation of the mid-tropospheric flow and the sea surface temperature of the North Atlantic: A statistical analysis Theor. Appl. Climat., 65, 197-214.

Brodeur RD, Mills CE, Overland JE, et al., 2000: Evidence for a substantial increase in gelatinous zooplankton in the Bering Sea, with possible links to climate change Fish. Ocean. Ogr., 8, 296-306.

S. Bronnimann, J. Luterbacher, C. Schmutz, H. Wanner, J. Staehelin, 2000: Variability of total ozone at Arosa, Switzerland, since 1931 related to atmospheric circulation indices Geophys. Res. Lett, 27, 2213-2216.
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Adam W. Burnett and Alexander R. McNicoll, 2000: Interannual Variations in the Southern Hemisphere Winter Circumpolar Vortex: Relationships with the Semiannual Oscillation J. Climate, 13, 991-999.
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Butchart, N., et al., 2000: The Response of the Stratospheric Climate to Projected Changes in the Concentrations of Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases from 1992 to 2051 J. Climate , 13, 2142-2159.
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Cavazos, T., 2000: Using self-organizing maps to investigate extreme climate events: An application to wintertime precipitation in the Balkans J. Climate, 13, 1718-1732.
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Chen, T. -C., and M. -C. Yen, 1997: Interdecadal variation of the Southern Hemisphere circulation. J. Climate, 10, 805-812.
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Cheng, X., and T. J. Dunkerton, 1995: Orthogonal rotation of spatial patterns derived from singular value decomposition analysis. J. Climate, 8, 2631-2643.
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Christiansen, B., 1999: Stratospheric vacillations in a general circulation model J. Atm. Sci. , 56, 1858-1872.
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Christiansen, B., 2000: Chaos, quasi-periodicity and interannual variaility: Studies of a stratospheric vacillation model. J. Atm. Sci. , 57, 3161-3173.
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Christiansen, B., 2000: A model study of the dynamical connection between the Arctic Oscillation and stratospheric vacillations. J. Geophys. Res. , 105, 29461-29474.
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Christiansen, B., 2000: Downward propagation from the stratosphere to the troposphere: Model and reanalysis. J. Geophys. Res. , submitted.
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Christoph, M., Ulbrich, U., Oberhuber, J.M., and Roeckner, E., 2000: The Role of Ocean Dynamics for Low-Frequ ency Fluctuations of the NAO in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCM J. Climate , 13, 2536-2549.
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Cohen J, Entekhabi D, 1999: Eurasian snow cover variability and Northern Hemisphere climate predictability Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 345-348.
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M. Collins, S. F. B. Tett, C. Cooper, 2001: The internal climate variability of HadCM3, a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments Climate Dyn., 17, 61-81.
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Cook, E., R. D'Arrigo, K. Briffa, 1998: A reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation using tree-ring chronologies from North America and Europe The Holocene, 8, 9-17.
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Corti S, Molteni F, Palmer TN, 1999: Signature of recent climate change in frequencies of natural atmospheric circulation regimes Nature, 398, 799-802.

Cullen, H. M. and P. B. deMenocal, P. B., 1999a: North Atlantic Influence on Middle Eastern Climate and Water Supply: an analysis using an SST-based NAO index. Clim. Change, submitted.

Cullen, H.M., P. B. deMenocal, 2000: North Atlantic Influence on Tigris-Euphrates Streamflow. International Journal of Climatology, 20, 853-863.
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D'Arrigo, R., and H. M. Cullen, 2000: A 350-year (AD 1628-1980) Tree-Ring Record of Turkish Precipitation: Linkages to Tigris Euphrates Streamflow. J Am Water Assoc., submitted.

Delworth, D., and K. W. Dixon, 2000 Implications of the recent trend in the Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation for the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation J. Climate, in press.
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Deser C, Walsh JE, Timlin MS, 2000: Arctic sea ice variability in the context of recent atmospheric circulation trends J. Climate, 13, 617-633.
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Deser C, 2000: On the teleconnectivity of the "Arctic Oscillation" Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 779-782.
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DeWeaver, E., and S. Nigam, 2000: Zonal-eddy dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate, 13, 3893-3914.
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DeWeaver, E., and S. Nigam, 2000: Do stationary waves drive the zonal-mean jet anomalies of the Northern Winter? J. Climate, 13, 2160-2176
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Dickson, R. R., et al., 2000: The Arctic Ocean Response to the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate , 13, 2671-2696.
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Timothy J. Dunkerton, 2000: Midwinter Deceleration of the Subtropical Mesospheric Jet and Interannual Variability of the High-Latitude Flow in UKMO Analyses J. Atm. Sci., 23, 3838-3855.
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Enfield, D. B., and A. M. Mestas-Nunez, 1999: Multiscale Variabilities in Global Sea Surface Temperatures and Their Relationships with Tropospheric Climate Patterns J. Climate, 12, 2719-2733.
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Feldstein, S. B., and S. Lee, 1995: The Intraseasonal Evolution of Angular Momentum in Aquaplanct and Realistic GCMs J. Atmos. Sci. , 52, 625-649.
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Feldstein, S., and S. Lee, 1996: Mechanisms of zonal index variability in an aquaplanet GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3541-3555.

Feldstein, S., and S. Lee, 1996: Mechanism of Zonal Index Evolution in a Two-Layer Model. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2232-2246.
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Feldstein, S., and S. Lee, 1998: An Observational Study of the Intraseasonal Poleward Propagation of Zonal Mean Flow Anomalies. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 2516-2529.
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Feldstein, S. B., and S. Lee, 1998: Is the atmospheric zonal index driven by an eddy feedback? J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3077-3086.
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Feser F, Graf HF, Perlwitz J, 2000: Secular variability of the coupled tropospheric and stratospheric circulation in the GCM ECHAM 3/LSG >Theor. Appl. Clim., 65, 1-15.

Fyfe, J. C., G. J. Boer, and G. M. Flato, 1999: The Arctic and Antarctic Oscillations and their projected changes under global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1601-1604.

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Garcia, R., L. Gimeno, E. Hernandez, R. Prieto, and P. Ribera, 2000: Reconstructing the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries from historical sources. Clim. Res., 14, 147-151.
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N. P. Gillett, G. C. Hegerl, M. R. Allen, and P. A. Stott, Implications of observed changes in the Northern Hemisphere circulation for the detection of anthropogenic climate change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 993-996, 2000.
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N. P. Gillett, M. P. Baldwin, and M. R. Allen, Nonlinearity in the stratospheric response to external forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 2000, submitted.
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Gong, D., and S. Wang, 1999: Definition of Antarctic Oscillation index. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 459-462.
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Gong, D., and S. Wang, 2000: Arctic Oscillation and Climate of China in Winter. Adv. in Atm. Sci., submitted.
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Graf, H. -F., J. Perlwitz, I. Kirchner, and I. Schult, 1995: Recent northern winter climate trends, ozone changes and increased greenhouse forcing. Contr. Atm. Phys., 68, 233-248.

Greatbatch, R. J., 2000: The North Atlantic Oscillation (review paper). Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, in press.
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Grey, S., Haines, K., and Troccoli, A., 2000: A Study of Temperature Changes in the Upper North Atlantic: 195 0-94. J. Climate , 13, 2697-2711.
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Hakkinen, S., 2000: Decadal Air-Sea Interaction in the North Atlantic Based on Observations and Modeling Results J. Climate, 13, 1195-1219.
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Hakkinen S, Geiger CA, 2000: Simulated low-frequency modes of circulation in the Arctic Ocean J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6549-6564.

Hansen, G., and M. P. Chipperfield, 1999: Ozone depletion at the edge of the Arctic polar vortex 1996/1997. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 1837.

Hansen J, Ruedy R, Glascoe J, et al., 1999: GISS analysis of surface temperature change J. Geophys. Res., 104, 30997-31022.

Hartmann, D. L., and F. Lo, 1998: Wave-driven zonal flow vacillation in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1303-1315.

Hartmann DL, 2000: The key role of lower-level meridional shear in baroclinic wave life cycles J. Atm. Sci., 57, 389-401.
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Hartmann, D.L., J.M. Wallace, V. Limpasuvan, D.W.J. Thompson, and J.R. Holton , 2000: Can Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Warming Interact to Produce Rapid Climate Change? Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 97, 1412-1417.
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Hasselmann K, 1999: Climate change - Linear and nonlinear signatures Nature, 398, 755-756.

R. W. Higgins, A. Leetmaa, Y. Xue, and A. Barnston, 2000: Dominant Factors Influencing the Seasonal Predictability of U.S. Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature J. Climate, 13, 3994-4017.
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Hines, K., Bromwich, D., Marshall, G., 2000: Artificial Surface Pressure Trends in the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica J. Climate, 13, 3940-3952.
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Honda M, Yamazaki K, Nakamura H, et al., 1999: Dynamic and thermodynamic characteristics of atmospheric response to anomalous sea-ice extent in the Sea of Okhotsk J. Climate, 12, 3347-3358.
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Hurrell, J. W., 1995: Decadal trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation region temperatures and precipitation. Science, 269, 676-679.

Hurrell, J. W., 1996: Influence of variations in extratropical wintertime teleconnections on Northern Hemisphere temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 665-668.

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Hurrell, J. W., and H. van Loon, 1997: Decadal variations in climate associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation. Climatic Change, 36, 301-326.

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Johnson MA, Proshutinsky AY, Polyakov IV, 1999: Atmospheric patterns forcing two regimes of arctic circulation: A return to anticyclonic conditions? Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1621-1624.
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Jones, P. D., T. Jonsson, and D. Wheeler, 1997: Extension to the North Atlantic Oscillation using early instrumental pressure observations from Gibraltar and south-west Iceland Int'l. J. Climatology, 17, 1433-1450.
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Joyce, T. M., Deser, C., and Spall, M., 2000: The Relation between Decadal Variability of Subtropical Mode Water and the North Atlantic Oscillation J. Climate , 13, 2550-2569.
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Kelly, P. M., P. D. Jones, and J. Pengqun, 1996: The spatial response of the climate system to explosive volcanic eruptions. Int. Journal of Climatology, 16, 537-550.

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Kelly PM, Jones PD, Jia PQ, 1999: Spatial patterns of variability in the global surface air temperature data set J. Geophys. Res., 104, 24237-24256.

Kerr, R. A., 1999: A new force in high-latitude climate. Science, 284, 241-242.

Kidson, J. W., and M. R. Sinclair, 1995: The influence of persistent anomalies on Southern Hemisphere storm tracks. J. Climate, 8, 1938-1950.
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Kidson, J. W., and I. G. Watterson, 1999: The structure and predictability of the "High-Latitude Mode" in the CSIRO9 general circulation model. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3859-3873.

Kirchner, Ingo, Georgiy L. Stenchikov, Hans-F. Graf, Alan Robock and Juan Carlos Antuna, 1999: Climate model simulation of winter warming and summer cooling following the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 19,039-19,055.
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Kitoh, A., H. Koide, K. Kodera, S. Yukimoto and A. Noda, 1996: Interannual variability in the stratospheric-tropospheric circulation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 543-546.

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Kodera, K., M. Chiba, H. Koide, A. Kitoh, and Y. Nikaidou, 1996: Interannual variability of the winter stratosphere and troposphere in the Northern Hemisphere. J. Met. Soc. Japan, 74, 365-382.

Kodera K, Koide H, Yoshimura H, 1999: Northern Hemisphere winter circulation associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation and stratospheric polar-night jet Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 443-446.
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K. Kodera, Y. Kuroda, and S. Pawson, 2000: Stratospheric sudden warmings and slowly propagating zonal-mean zonal wind anomalies, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 12351-12359.
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K. Kodera, and Y. Kuroda, 2000: A mechanistic model study of slowly propagating coupled stratosphere-troposphere variability, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 12361-12370.
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K. Kodera and Y. Kuroda, 2000: Tropospheric and stratospheric aspects of the Arctic Oscillation, Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted.
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Koide H, Kodera K, 1999: A SVD analysis between the winter NH 500-hPa height and surface temperature fields J. Met. Soc. Japan, 77, 47-61.

Kuroda Y, Kodera K, 1999: Role of planetary waves in the stratosphere-troposphere coupled variability in the northern hemisphere winter Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2375-2378.
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Kushnir, Y., V. J. Cardon, J. G. Greenwood, and M. A. Cane, 1997: The recent increase in North Atlantic wave heights. J. Climate, 10, 2107-2113.
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Kwok R, Rothrock DA, 1999: Variability of Fram Strait ice flux and North Atlantic Oscillation J. Geophys. Res., 104, 5177-5189.

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Lee, S., and S. Feldstein, 1996: Mechanism of zonal index evolution in a two-layer model. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2232-2246.

Lee, S., 1997: Maintenance of multiple jets in a baroclinic flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1726-1738.
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Leroy SS, North GR, 2000: The application of COSMIC data to global change research Terr. Atmos. Ocean Sci., 11, 187-210.

Levi BG, 1998: Adrift on the ice pack, researchers explore changes in the Arctic environment Phys. Today, 51, 17-19.

Levitus S, Antonov JI, Boyer TP, et al., 2000: Warming of the world ocean Science, 287, 2225-2229.
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Limpasuvan, V., and Hartmann, D. L. Eddies and the Annular Modes of Climate Variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 3133-3136 (1999).
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Lorenz, D.J., and D.L. Hartmann, 2000: Eddy-Zonal Flow Feedback in the Southern Hemisphere, J. Atmos. Sci., submitted.
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Luterbacher, J., C. Schmutz, D. Gyalistras, E. Xoplaki, H. Wanner, 2000: Reconstruction of monthly NAO and EU indices back to AD 1675 Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2745-2748.
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MacDonald G, Felzer B, Finney B, et al., 2000: Holocene lake sediment records of Arctic hydrology J. Paleo., 24, 1-14.

MacDonald GM, Velichko AA, Kremenetski CV, et al., 2000: Holocene treeline history and climate change across northern Eurasia Quaternary Res., 53, 302-311.

Macdonald RW, Carmack EC, McLaughlin FA, et al., 1999: Connections among ice, runoff and atmospheric forcing in the Beaufort Gyre Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2223-2226.
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Mao, Jianping and Alan Robock, 1998: Surface air temperature simulations by AMIP general circulation models: Volcanic and ENSO signals and systematic errors. J. Climate, 11, 1538-1552.
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Marsh, R., 2000: Recent Variability of the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Inferred from Surface Heat and Freshwater Fluxes J. Climate, 13, 3239-3260.
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Marshall, J., and Kushnir, Y., 1997: "A white paper on Atlantic Climate Variability."
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Maslanik, J.A., M.C. Serreze and R.G. Barry, 1996: Recent decreases in Arctic summer ice cover and linkages to atmospheric circulation anomalies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1677-1680.

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McCabe GJ, Fountain AG, Dyurgerov M, 2000: Variability in winter mass balance of Northern Hemisphere glaciers and relations with atmospheric circulation Arct. Antarct. Alp. Res., 32, 64-72.

McPhee, M. G., T. P. Stanton, J. H. Morison, and D. G. Martinson, 1998: Freshening of the upper ocean in the Arctic: Is perennial sea ice disappearing? Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1729-1932.

Meehl, G. A., J. W. Hurrell, and H. van Loon, 1998: A modulation of the mechanism of the semiannual oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere. Tellus, 50A, 442-450.

Mestas-Nunez, Alberto M., David B. Enfield, 1999: Rotated Global Modes of Non-ENSO Sea Surface Temperature Variability J. Climate, 12, 2734-2746.
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Mo, K. C., 2000: Relationships between Low-Frequency Variability in the Southern Hemisphere and Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies J. Climate, 13, 3599-3610.
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Monahan AH, Fyfe JC, Flato GM, 2000: A regime view of northern hemisphere atmospheric variability and change under global warming Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1139-1142.
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Monahan AH, Pandolfo L, Fyfe JC, 2000: The preferred structure of variability of the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted.
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Mysak LA, Venegas SA, 1998: Decadal climate oscillations in the Arctic: A new feedback loop for atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 3607-3610.
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Newman, P. A., J. F. Gleason, R. D. McPeters, R. S. Stolarski, 1997: Anomalously low ozone over the Arctic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2689-2692.

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Ohhashi Y, Yamazaki K, 1999: Variability of the Eurasian pattern and its interpretation by wave activity flux J. Met. Soc. Japan, 77, 495-511.

Osborn TJ, Briffa KR, Tett SFB, et al., 1999: Evaluation of the North Atlantic Oscillation as simulated by a coupled climate model Clim. Dyn., 15, 685-702.
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Overland, J. E., J. M. Adams, and N. A. Bond, 1999: Decadal variability of the Aleutian low and its relation to high-latitude circulationJ. Climate, 12, 1542-1548.
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H. Paeth, A. Hense, R. Glowienka-Hense, S. Voss, U. Cubasch, 1999: The North Atlantic Oscillation as an indicator for greenhouse-gas induced regional climate change Climate Dyn., 15, 953-960.
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Pawson S, Kodera K, Hamilton K, et al., 2000: The GCM-reality intercomparison project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific issues and initial results BAMS, 81, 781-796.
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Perlwitz, J., and H. -F. Graf, 1995: The statistical connection between tropospheric and stratospheric circulation of the Northern Hemisphere in winter. J. Climate, 8, 2281-2295.
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Perlwitz J, Graf HF, Voss R, 2000: The leading variability mode of the coupled troposphere-stratosphere winter circulation in different climate regimes J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6915-6926.

Polyakov IV, Proshutinsky AY, Johnson MA, 2000: Seasonal cycles in two regimes of Arctic climate J. Geophys. Res., 104, 25761-25788.

C. J. Proctor, A. Baker, W. L. Barnes, M. A. Gilmour, 2000: A thousand year speleothem proxy record of North Atlantic climate from Scotland Climate Dyn., 16, 815-820.
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Ramachandran, S., V. Ramaswamy, Georgiy L. Stenchikov, and Alan Robock, 2000: Radiative impacts of the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption: Lower stratospheric response. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
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Randel, W. J., F. Wu, J. M. Russell III and J. Waters, 1999: Space-time patterns of trends in stratospheric constituents derived from UARS measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 3711-3727.

Randel, W. J., and F. Wu, 1999: Cooling of the Arctic and Antarctic polar stratospheres due to ozone depletion. J. Climate, 12, 1467-1479.
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Rigor IG, Colony RL, Martin S, 2000: Variations in surface air temperature observations in the Arctic, 1979-97 J. Climate, 13, 896-914.
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Rinke A, Dethloff K, Christensen JH, 1999: Arctic winter climate and its interannual variations simulated by a regional climate model J. Geophys. Res., 104, 19027-19038.

Robertson AW, Mechoso CR, Kim YJ, 2000: The influence of Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies on the North Atlantic Oscillation J. Climate, 13, 122-138.
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Robertson AW, Ghil M, Latif M, 2000: Interdecadal changes in atmospheric low-frequency variability with and without boundary forcing J. Atm. Sci., 57, 1132-1140.
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Robinson, W. A.: A Baroclinic Mechanism for the Eddy Feedback on the Zonal Index, 2000: J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 415-422.
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Robock, Alan and Jianping Mao, 1995: The volcanic signal in surface temperature observations. J. Climate, 8, 1086-1103.
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Robock, Alan, 1996: Stratospheric control of climate, Science, 272, 972-973.
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Robock, Alan, 2000: Volcanic eruptions and climate. Rev. Geophys., 38, 191-219. (Invited paper)
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Rodwell, M. J., D. P. Rowell, and C. K. Folland, 1999: Oceanic forcing of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and European climate. Nature, 398, 320-323.

Rodo, X., E. Baert, F. A. Comin, 1997: Variations in seasonal rainfall in Southern Europe during the present century: relationships with the North Atlantic Oscillation and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation Climate Dyn., 13, 275-284.
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Rodrigo, F.S., D. Pozo-Vazquez, M.J. Esteban-Parra, and Y. Castro-Diez, 2000: A reconstruction of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation Index back to AD 1501 using documentary data in southern Spain. J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Rogers, J. C., and E. -M. Thompson, 1995: Atlantic Arctic cyclones and the mild Siberian winters of the 1980s. Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 799-802.

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Schmutz, C., J. Luterbacher, D. Gyalistras, E. Xoplaki, H. Wanner, 2000: Can we trust proxy-based NAO index reconstructions Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1135-1138.
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Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, M. Visbeck, N. Naik, J, Miller, G. Krahmann, and H. Cullen, 2000: Causes of Atlantic Ocean climate variability between 1958 and 1998. Journal of Climate, 13, 2845-2862.
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Serreze, M.C., F. Carse, R.G. Barry and J.C. Rogers, 1997: Icelandic low cyclone activity: climatological features, linkages with the NAO, and relationships with recent changes in the Northern Hemisphere circulation. J. Climate, 10, 453-464.
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Shindell, D. T., R. L. Miller, G. Schmidt, and L. Pandolfo, 1999: Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing. Nature, 399, 452-455.

Solomon S, 1999: Stratospheric ozone depletion: A review of concepts and history Rev. Geophys., 37, 275-316.

Steinbrecht, W., H. Claude, and U. Kohler, 1998: Correlations between tropopause height and total ozone: Implication for long-term changes. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 19183-19192.

Stephenson DB, Pavan V, Bojariu R, 2000: Is the North Atlantic Oscillation a random walk? Int. J. Climatol., 20, 1-18.
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Stenchikov, Georgiy L., Ingo Kirchner, Alan Robock, Hans-F. Graf, Juan Carlos Antuna, R. G. Grainger, Alyn Lambert, and Larry Thomason, 1998: Radiative forcing from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 13,837-13,857.
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Stockton, C. W., and M. F. Glueck, 1999: Long-term variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Preprint of the Am. Met. Soc. 10th Symposium on Global Change Studies, Dallas Tx

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