Large-scale weather regimes and local climate over the western United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1796-1813

  Robertson, Andrew W ^a,b   Ghil, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; TROPICS;

EL NINO; LARGE SCALE WEATHER REGIMES; TROPICAL NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032721148     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1796:LSWRAL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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