The relationship between the wintertime North Atlantic oscillation and blocking episodes in the North Atlantic

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 355-369

  Shabbar, Amir ^a   Huang, Jianping ^a   Higuchi, Kaz ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric blocking; Composite analysis; Conceptual model; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Quasi geostrophic potential vorticity; Regression analysis; Thermal forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035868596     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.612     Document Type: Article

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