Storm-track organization and variability in a simplified atmospheric global circulation model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 548, 1998, Pages 1019-1043

  Frisius, Thomas ^a   Lunkeit, Frank ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a   James, Ian N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blocking anticyclones; Low frequency variability; Low resolution model; Storm life cycles

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; GCM; STORM TRACK;

EID: 0031682348     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54801     Document Type: Article

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