Determination of climatological seasons for the East Coast of the U.S. using an air mass-based classification

Climate Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-116

  Cheng, Shouquan ^a   Kalkstein, Laurence S ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air masses; Climatological seasons; Discriminant function analysis; Spatial synoptic classification; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

AIR MASS; CLIMATE SEASON; REGIONAL WEATHER PATTERN; SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION;

USA, ATLANTIC COAST;

EID: 0031422038     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr008107     Document Type: Article

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