The statistics and horizontal structure of anomalous weather regimes in the community climate model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 841-859

  Black, Robert X ^a   Evans, Katherine J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; CLIMATE MODEL; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODEL;

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

EID: 0031667954     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0841:TSAHSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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