Climate variability of the intensity of synoptic processes in the North Atlantic midlatitudes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 574-592

  Gulev, Sergey K ^a,b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SURFACE PARAMETERS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; SYNOPTIC PROCESSES;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030866553     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0574:CVOTIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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