A modified zonal index and its physical sense

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Li, Jianping ^a   Wang, Julian X L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; SEA LEVEL; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SYMMETRIC PATTERNS;

GEOPHYSICS; SEA LEVEL;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ZONAL FLOW;

PSIDIUM GUAJAVA;

EID: 0347413667     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017441     Document Type: Article

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