Surface and 700 hPa atmospheric circulation patterns for the Great Lakes basin and eastern North America and relationship to atmospheric teleconnections

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-60

  Rohli, Robert V ^a   Vega, Anthony J ^b   Binkley, Michael R ^a   Britton, Stephen D ^a   Heckman, Heather E ^a   Jenkins, James M ^a   Ono, Yuichi ^a   Sheeler, Deborah E ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Great Lakes basin; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGIONAL PATTERN; TELECONNECTION;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032956080     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0380-1330(99)70716-1     Document Type: Article

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