Life Cycles of Blocking Flows Associated with Synoptic-Scale Eddies: Observed Results and Numerical Experiments

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 593-618

  Luo, Dehai ^a   Li, Jianping ^b   Huang, Fei ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Blocking; Life cycle; Synoptic scale eddy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347936053     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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