Are the Northern Hemisphere winter storm tracks significantly correlated?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4230-4244

  Chang, Edmund K M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATLANTIC STORMS; COVARIANCE; DATASETS; REANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CORRELATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WINTER;

EID: 10244232886     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3195.1     Document Type: Article

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