Midwinter suppression of northern hemisphere storm track activity in the real atmosphere and in GCM experiments

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1589-1599

  Christoph, M ^a,b   Ulbrich, U ^a   Speth, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GCM; JET STREAM; MIDWINTER SUPPRESSION; OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; STORM TRACKS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031453127     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1589:MSONHS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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